Read and respond to this message at: https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4237336 By: adfhau
Yes, things are going to vary from protocol to protocol.. Though one would assume there are standard components to dealing with a webcam in sending and receiving.. Ie. A - Sending 1. Fetch stream from camera - assuming V4L or V4L2? What other video protocols are there besides devices such as DVB-x receivers which stream MPEG anyway or IEEE1394 devices? 2. Pass stream from camera to codec + display routines (w/display codecs/mechanisms like Xv and friends - perhaps xine and other programs have display libraries that would be helpful here?) 3. Pass codec output to IM protocol video protocol handler 4. Pass IM protocol video protocol handler data to core IM protocol handler ... conversely ... B - Receiving 1. Receive stream from core IM protocol handler and pass to video protocol handler 2. Pass stream from video protocol handler to codec 3. Pass from codec to display routines Obviously there's going to be a lot of variation here - but has the framework for say steps A1-2 and B1-2 been done? I would think that things like ffmpeg and friends may have done some of the codec work.. in line with my previous comments, the telling thing here will be to see which one gets video first.. Skype for *nix or Gaim for Linux.. Now.. I'd contribute if I could - however my C and C++ coding is shite.. malloc/dealloc/realloc always did my head in, and my university seemed to focus on java.. I wonder what's happening with gaim development - is it that the major protocols are changing their authentication and checking mechanisms so often that all the work is going into reverse engineering them? Are there patent issues on the codecs used to decode/encode video streams? I guess in some ways it's also telling that file transfer doesn't work reliably on some of the larger protocols. Perhaps someone needs to, if they haven't already, design the kind of framework above if it hasn't been done, and say "These are your APIs" and then those who were capable could just focus on taking stream A and sending it to socket B.. I dunno.. maybe I'm waaay too simplistic about things. I just get the impression that often in open source stuff that people insist on reinventing large swathes of code because something could be done better at the expense of zero progress because the same ground is being recovered multiple times. ______________________________________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you elected to monitor this forum. To stop monitoring this forum, login to SourceForge.net and visit: https://sourceforge.net/forum/unmonitor.php?forum_id=665 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Gaim-forums mailing list Gaim-forums@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-forums
