hi there,
always nervous of flash technology because of its proprietary nature,
i'm delighted to find that it's becoming free software - and that red5
exists - and also that there's a development environment f4l (sf.net)
flash for linux.
i'm looking for some help with a project, and i was wondering if there's
anybody who would be interested in helping out.
ThePlan(tm) is a social networking site - including videochat.
however, i don't like the style of all "chat" systems: i want my own
one, designed in HTML (running under mod_python 2.3.5).
ideally what i would like to have is quite literally _just_ a "video
window" - that i can "embed" into the application. it needs to comprise
of two parts:
1) a "local" window - showing the user their own webcam, and also
(automatically of course) "registering" their username with the server
2) the means to select as many "remote" windows as their bandwidth
can possibly handle (actually probably i'll limit it to oh 4 or so
"users")
that's all.
everything else - forums, chat, registration - everything -
i will handle myself, in the web application (where it _should_
damn well be dealt with).
here's the thing: i'll be xxxxed if i'm going to install xxxxing windows
to make such modifications to the existing red5 codebase.
so.
does anyone know if something like this already exists?
alternatively...
is there anybody whom i could sponsor to chop up red5's codebase to make
a horrendously simple application using a static web page - something
like this:
< html >
< body >
< iframe src="webcam.swf?server=127.0.0.1&mode=localcam®istrationname=fred"
width="192" height="128" >
< iframe src="webcam.swf?server=127.0.0.1&mode=remotecam&viewuser=joe"
width="192" height="128" >
< iframe src="webcam.swf?server=127.0.0.1&mode=remotecam&viewuser=mandy"
width="192" height="128" >
< /body >
< /html >
note the first one being "localcam" mode and the other two being
"remotecam" mode.
like all technology, just because you _can_ do something a particular
way (and flash servers _can_ do "chat") doesn't mean that you _should_
do it that way :)
i like combining different technologies where they excel - and flash
servers, compared to web+ajax servers, do _not_ excel as chat servers -
but they _do_ excel as videoconferencing servers.
love and peace,
l.
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