On Tuesday 24 February 2009 02:24, Rajeev R. K. wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:24 AM, aditya <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Keeping aside the cost and availability of net bandwidth, is > >> this possible with Linux. > > > > I could be mistaken but I don't think any open source video > > conferencing software can handle High Def. video streams yet. In > > addition, you'd need camera units on both sides which can support > > HD - that, unfortunately, rules out your average webcam or > > capture device. >
> Now, all that is needed to turn this into a conference, is a camera > and linux box at the other end, and voila, we have a 2 way video > conference. That is one to one. Not a conference in the true sense. One needs a gatekeeper and additional capabilities at the client to view multiple streams in one composite window. Afaik vlc and mplayer do not have this capability. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
