Hi Matt, do you mean to say that the actual movie has to be sitting on some intermediate server where you fetch it through the URL? Or is the streaming ultimately taking place between two Coccinella clients in p2p?
Jean-Louis -----Original Message----- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:59:49 +0200 From: Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [jdev] Video Streaming over jabber To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sorry for jumping into this subject so late. One kind of video streaming already exists in the Coccinella's whiteboard using QuickTime. Works on MacOSX and Windows. It is part of the (primitive) whiteboard protocol which allows essentially anything to be imported and shared in a whiteboard. If one user opens a movie that QuickTime is capable to import, it sends a http link (as part of a whiteboard item) where the other user can obtain it, which then just gets the movie (streaming over http) into its own whiteboard. The user can start playing before the download has completed (fast start). It is using http so it can't do anything about NATs/firewalls. It is also possible to just enter a url where a streaming (TV) is found and the two users watch the same video (or audio) stream. This is perhaps not what you wanted, but it shows some of the flexibility with a generic and general whiteboard. I know, the protocol sucks and I really should move towards SVG. /Mats
