Re: [Gaim-devel] gaim-vv support

[Salvatore B. <em...@gm...>]

On 3/16/07, Sean Egan <sea...@gm...> wrote:
>
> 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 :)
> >


That's right. Definetely not wanted  from developers. :)

> > 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.


Can I have a look at it?

>
> > > 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"


Probably true ;)

>
> > 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.
> >

cross-platform was not in my head, simply because I don't use windows.
I have it though on my laptop on vmware, because I meant to reverse
engineering
a usb device, which at the end I didn't for the same reason vv is not on
gaim :)


> > 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.


So everybody agree to use gstreamer as a framwork? I never used it but I was
planning
to study it anyway, because my favorites player are all based on it. I heard
it supports
v4l too now.

>
> > 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.


Salvo

>
>



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