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>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Donovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dave> I've been thinking about turning a Linksys WRTSL54GS into a
Dave> video phone.
Dave> Wanna help?
Dave> Basically, I would load OpenWRT on it, hook up a USB sound
Dave> card, USB camera and USB flash. Install Asterisk and use the
Dave> console (or I guess a GUI-less softphone) for audio IO.
It sounds rather difficult to me.
It doesn't really have the CPU to decode an mpeg stream and put it
on a screen, or encode a video stream into mpeg.
Instead, I'd use a Tivo!
Or: http://www.neurosaudio.com/osd/osd.asp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] got one, and it isn't great yet.
Dave> Think about the cool things you could do with that platform:
Dave> 1) A rolling phone with a literal 'follow-me' feature. You
Dave> could put a particular coloured patch on yourself and have it
Dave> follow you optically (lots of work) or you could walk around
Dave> with a wistle of a particular frequency and have the system
Dave> turn based on the relative strength of the sound in the left
Dave> and right (and maybe a couple other) microphones.
huh? how does that follow? from a 54gs?
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