Damien, My suggestion would be to add 2 config parameters, perhaps not necessary, but perhaps helpful:
#1 set "do not fragment" option - this would cause ekiga to set all outbound video and/or audio frames, or leave it default, which i believe is already set "do not fragment" #2 set DSCP to anything between 0x00 and 0xFF, with 0x28 or 0x2E being the most commmon, probably brings very little across the Internet, I suspect most providers ignore the markings, or re-mark. Damien Sandras wrote: > Hi John, > > Le mercredi 27 février 2008 à 09:52 +0000, John Hawley a écrit : >> Thanks very much for your suggestion but minicom and similar text based >> devices have now been supplanted with sms, and IM both of which are poor >> substitutes for face to face talking. >> >> The irritating thing is that we have used skype video calling for this >> purpose for 3 or 4 years (with varying degrees of success) but the trend >> for ever increasing camera resolution is outstripping bandwidth >> resulting very good quality pictures but at a transmission rate >> inadequate for lip-reading purposes. Perhaps I should clarify that by >> bandwidth, I mean upload bandwidth, whereas download bandwidth has >> steadily increased over the last few years, (currently because its >> copper wires into the house its 8Meg), upload bandwidth has remained at >> 250k thus end to end video is at 250K! UK ISPs appear to have no >> interest in increasing this number! >> >> What I'm trying to achieve is to force all/most of that available >> bandwidth into video stream and Ekiga would at least seem to offer that >> prospect. > > > Hello John, > > Matthias tells this : > > Ekiga 3.00 will bring all the features necessary for a high-framerate > communication like described by you. This will be made possible by > hardware acceleration of the video output (on linux via > XVideo, on windows with DirectDraw). Also, with Ekiga 3.00's new codecs > you will still get a very good quality even at low bitrates. I would > recommend trying out both theora and H.264 (needs more > CPU , but offers more quality) for this. It should be easy to setup > Ekiga, just more the slider to Frame Rate preference and enter you > uplink bitrate (bitrate, not byterate). There are some other > things that could be tweaked, but for me it works very well out of the > box. In case we would need some more configuration, it would be great to > continue this discussion on the ekiga-devel-list, since we are talking > about the latest development load. You can get the latest state from > ekiga's svn trunk repository. > > Matthias > _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
