Re: [Gaim-devel] gaim-vv support

[Mark D. <ma...@ki...>]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:24:22 +0100, Salvatore Benedetto wrote
> What's the status of the project?

Basically abandoned.

> Why did the vv project died? Was it only due to a lack of time of devs?
> Was there any other reason?

This was covered in Bleeter's email.  Lack of time played a part, yes.

> Someone in the channels said that the lack of a media framework
> was a problem too.
> 
> What about a libgaim-v4l library that handles all of V4L (and V4L2 ) 
> stuff? Compression included by using libjpeg (or libj2k).

The exact implementation is of course still up in the air.  Using existing
layers of abstraction is probably a good thing.  So like, using GStreamer or
FarSight (http://farsight.sourceforge.net/).

-Mark