On 26 Nov 2007, at 23:30, Jerry K wrote: > Ekiga (previously known as gnome meeting) is the application mentioned > in all of my archived discussions concerning web cam's.
There's also work going on in libpurple to support audio and video chat. Currently it's the AdiumX folks that are driving this work for their (excellent) Mac chat client, but presumably the (less excellent) Pidgin IM client on Solaris and Linux will take advantage of this work at some point. http://www.adiumx.com/blog/2007/10/happy-leopard-day.php Cheeri, Calum. > > Hope this helps, > > Jerry K > > > Michael Bender/MBP wrote: >> Every so often the topic of "webcam on Sun Ray" comes up >> here, and the conversation usually ends up with the "we >> need to support isoc over USB" statement and then the thread >> dies out. >> >> I'd like to up-level the conversation and ask this question: >> >> If some magic fairy could make the pixels from a USB >> webcam connected to a DTU appear on the server so that >> an application could consume those pixels, what would >> that application (or set of applications) be? >> >> Other than sending them to Windows of course. What *are* the >> apps that run on Solaris/Linux that can consume the output of >> a webcam and do something useful with it? >> >> Please reply to me directly, I'm not on this alias yet. >> >> thanks, >> mike >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
