Simon: I dont' think bandwith is going to be a problem I got a 100M FD feet from GT/Bell on both ends...
My biggest problem is making sure that those higher-end camera's ($250-$750 range) work with linux/Ekiga Peter simon wrote: >Hi Peter, >There are several approaches you could try. > >1). Softphone such as Ekiga which supports SIP, H323, and direct >connection (IP->IP). > >2). VLC in stream mode. >(http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html) > > >As you are probably aware the biggest 'killer' for things like this is >network jitter, followed by latency and bandwidth. > >Whatever you choose on the software side, the hardware will also have >a significant effect (my $800 DV Camcorder produces a much better image >than my $10 USB webcam). > >If you can do the echo cancellation in hardware (i.e. decent speaker >phone) then that will help a lot too. > > >What sort of network are you attempting to work across, please don't say >Shaw residential cable ;-) > >Simon > > >On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:58:49AM -0600, Peter Van den Wildenbergh wrote: > > >>Hi All: >> >>Just want to pick some brains here. >>Does anybody has experience with a linux based >>video conference (boardroom to boardroom) tool. >>Quality of sound and image are important >>so I don't want to use the $49 webcam special ... >>With that comes the question of drivers for the higher end cameras... >> >>Thx >> >>Peter >> >>_______________________________________________ >>clug-talk mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>**Please remove these lines when replying >> >> _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
