Rajeev R. K. wrote: > > > Correction, it's already been done before, both byu hobbyists and > professionally. > I have even set up a system for a couple of clients of mine using HD > quality Digital Camcorders. > Interfacing was through ieee1394(firewire, dvgrab), Encoded into > Theora Video(ffmpeg2theora) and Streamed(via Icecast), > Played at the remote end using both mplayer and VLC, an end to end > Free Software HD Video Distribution system. > There is even a GUI for it, though i havent personally used it... CLI > Rules ;) (theorur, or something like that... google for it) > > 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. > Now, if someone wants to have this set up, as a demo at HBCSE or > somewhere, i'll be glad to do it, as part of a lug talk. Sadly, i have > only 1 > firewire capable camcorder.. so someone else will have to pony up a > second camcorder, and the bandwidth too. > > That is encouraging news. Lets hope something positive come out of it (the other cam).
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