On Sunday 22 February 2009 00:52, Rony wrote: > Hello, > > There is an advt. of CISCO where a group of people from China and > Some European country come face to face virtually on huge screens. > Is this really possible or just trick photography? If possible, it > would not only help in overseas conferencing but also in huge > office complexes where one has to travel a long distance or even a > few floors to get to the boss's cabin or some place else. The > normal video conferencing has a very small screen where one cannot > even move one's head or it would get out of the visible area. With > high resolution videos, a huge life size image is possible and > groups of people can talk to each other. It has a fantastic effect > and looks really good. > > Keeping aside the cost and availability of net bandwidth, is this > possible with Linux.
It is > If it is not very expensive, could we actually > setup a prototype in HBCSE during our forthcoming GLUG meets over > the months? We can. Good idea. Setup a streaming video cum conference system. We could also experiment with doc sharing. FOSS setup for e-learning. > A LAN cable should provide good bandwidth for > intraoffice video conferencing. We can link up two classrooms or > the lab and classroom. We already have a projector and a 17/19" LCD > screen. I am sure this has good commercial potential too for big > corporate offices. The bandwidth requirements for a D1 res is 8Mbps per feed. That is the main cost. Also the ad does not tell you that you need a properly setup room, not azad maidan to do any video conference. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
