On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:31 AM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Again, Tiling multiple streams is simple to add on, just take multiple stream url's. i could put together a simple shell script to tile the video windows in such a fashion, even doing a P-i-P for the local video :) And the icecast server can be used as a gatekeeper, if you tack on a little bit of code/metadata on top (Like have the ability to register a conferenceid along with a source stream, and allow only authorized clients to join a conference etc, changing mostly auth, and none of the core functionality.) But if all you need is a Point-To-Point Conference, a simple Zenity based GUI and you're up and running.. Also, here you're looking for HD quality, you are looking to cover a room, not individuals, so it is probably point-to-point(i.e. Room-to-Room usage, not many face-to-face usage, so unless you want to see the latest morning-after stubble, an old fashioned webcam is good enough for that). The essence is ready, i.e. the ability for multiple parties to receive each others audio/video. Regards R. K. Rajeev > > > -- > Rgds > JTD > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
