Re: [Fire-talk] H.323

[Alan H. <al...@us...>]

I wasn't aware of an AIM audio solution for the Mac, but if anyone else 
has information on one, I am all ears!

 From my understanding, the AV components of iChat were developed 
entirely by Apple (since AOL is prohibited from doing video chat by the 
FCC as a restriction on their TimeWarner merger)

Also, the audio codec used by AIM (and Yahoo!) is a windows-only 
solution (although some Intel Linux code has been created to run that 
specific Windows DLL - but that doesn't help us PowerPC users)  That 
codec is shipped as a part of Windows so AIM doesn't have to pay any 
royalty licensing for it, so it is likely that they will continue to 
use that solution and we will have to rely upon "Audio, for the rest of 
us....."

Alan

On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 09:48  AM, Tim Brown wrote:

> Alan,
> Wasn't there a AIM for OS 9 that did audio?
>
> Its really a shame that iChat AV doesn't use the same audio protocol 
> as AIM (So iChat users can voice chat with Windows AIM users.)
> Unless perhaps AOL plans on ditching their current codec?
>
> On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 11:32 AM, Alan Humpherys wrote:
>
>> Great Idea Alessandro!
>>
>> My Goal (after we get the next major release of Fire out the door) is 
>> to concentrate on audio and video capabilities for Fire.  Right now 
>> the thoughts are as follows:
>>
>> Video
>> - Support for Yahoo! webcam
>> - Support for iChat AV video (assuming we can determine their 
>> protocol)
>> - Support for H.323 (thanks to the suggestion below)
>>
>> Audio
>> - Support for iChat AV audio (assuming we can get access to their 
>> CODEC/protocol/noise canceling algorithms)
>> - Perhaps support a Fire-specific audio solution
>> (unfortunately support for AIM and Yahoo audio is out of the question 
>> because that CODEC is not available on the Mac.)
>>
>> Alan
>>