Re: [Gaim-devel] Fwd: SoC gaim-vv comments (was Re: gaim-vv support)

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why don't you go ask the amsn camp what they have been doing? They 
already have this implemented. It's time to swallow your pride.

Salvatore Benedetto wrote:
> Question: Shouldn't video streaming be all about taking a stream from 
> a video source
> (v4l device in linux), compress it in jpeg or jpeg2k, and send it with 
> an UDP connection?
>
> I saw that video streaming was partially supported in vv, what 
> protocol does msn or yahoo uses?
> Are they simply UDP packets?
>
> By the way, did you make any list or web page, with all the issues you 
> found during the design of the
> vv API?
>
> Salvo.
>
> On 3/16/07, * Kevin M Stange* <ke...@si... 
> <mailto:ke...@si...>> wrote:
>
>     Salvatore Benedetto wrote:
>     > Anyway, the only thing I didn't like about gaim-vv , was that it
>     had too
>     > much dependencies
>     > like a siplib jp2k etc... In my opinion, the less dipendecies
>     the better.
>     >
>
>     We won't really end up with any fewer dependencies for the most part,
>     just fewer direct dependencies.  We'll still need to have a gstreamer
>     supporting the proper media formats in order to properly support
>     the VV
>     capabilities for each protocol.  That is something we'll certainly
>     need
>     to handle in the framework as well (ensuring that the codecs/formats
>     required are available, and possibly supporting several in fallback
>     succession as with buddy icons' image formats).
>
>     Kevin
>
>
>