Re: [Gaim-devel] gaim-vv support

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

At first I was all "why is Mark responding with basically exacttly what I said?"

Then I realized I was cursed by the "forgot to hit reply all" gobliin.

-s.

On 3/15/07, Sean Egan <sea...@gm...> wrote:
> On 3/15/07, Salvatore Benedetto <em...@gm...> wrote:
> > The most wanted feature! :)
>
> By you :)
>
> > What's the status of the project?
>
> I've been working on it on and off in my spare time (more off than
> on). I have a branch on my own machine that will become a larger
> priority for me once 2.0.0 is done with.
>
> > Why did the vv project died? Was it only due to a lack of time of devs?
> > Was there any other reason?
>
> I would list "lack of interest" as a reason before "lack of time." For
> the most part, we've found very little overlap between "people who
> want to use voice and video" and "people capable of writing code to do
> voice and video"
>
> I started working on it, but decided it should be put off until after 2.0.0
>
> > Someone in the channels said that the lack of a media framework
> > was a problem too.
>
> When I was actively working on it, that was a huge issue. There were
> no good open-souce, cross-platform, streaming media libraries. Since
> then, the state of streaming media and cross-platformitude in
> Gstreamer has increased greatly, and we should be able to use it.
>
> > What about a libgaim-v4l library that handles all of V4L (and V4L2 ) stuff?
> > Compression included by using libjpeg (or libj2k).
>
> Gstreamer is better for this.
>
> All this said, I'm not sure how likely we are to accept "write
> gaim-vv" as a SoC project. Perhaps some small subset of it, might
> work, but the project as a whole has proven to be a whole lot of
> trouble and headaches I wouldn't wish upon anyone, much less a poor
> innocent student.
>
> -s.
>