[JDEV] Voice over IP

[Colin Bell]

Greg,
Are you using the Flash communication server to do what you have 
described (video, voice etc), or are you just using flash as a 
development tool with Jabber?

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 02:51 PM, Greg Boulter wrote:

>
>> I have skim read this draft. Generally I like it, but there are things
>> I dont like about it.
>
> Whereas I just want something I could implement now. Given that there 
> doesn't seem to have been a lot of discussion about it .....
>
>> - Why this draft is so hidden? If you didn't sent links here I will
>>   probably not know it exists. Thats why I would prefer it as JEP.
>
> .... and that so far I too have just skim read the draft I can't 
> really comment on how much I like it or not. My question is very 
> practical. I have to come up with something now. I'm perfectly capable 
> of doing it my own way so that my client can recognise when it has 
> connected to another of its kind and then as my clients can have 
> different features activated or not the two would need to negotiate 
> which features they share that are compatible and therefore determine 
> amongst other things the layout of their respective graphical 
> interfaces. No use having a "See Contact" button if contact doesn't 
> have a camera, etc.
>
> My client, and I don't know what to call it, my "inhouse" name has 
> been JabberBot, but I'm sure someone must have called their client 
> that, so I thought of "JabberMX" as it is very tightly integrated with 
> the various Macromedia MX stuff, but I see someone once said they were 
> releasing a JabberMX so anyway, this client can coordinate up to 12 
> cameras, 12 microphones, play mp3 streams, load graphics or flash swf 
> files, be connected to a bot, view video, transfer documents, interact 
> with vxml, recieve telephone communication and respond via speech 
> synth or microphone(s).
>
> Or, if the client provider (a website administrator) may have set up 
> the configuration files so that my client has access to none of the 
> above, or the enduser may have further modified the starting 
> configuration to deny access to services that it is capable of but 
> doesn't wish to tell contacts how many cameras they have, or even that 
> there is access to a camera.
>
> For my own use it's pretty simple, I can easily transfer an array of 
> info concerning each client's capabilities and that will take only a 
> short period of time. My client also loads modules though, so it is 
> quite possible that one client will ask the other to recieve a voice 
> message and the address of the module if the recieving client doesn't 
> have the capability at this moment.
>
> I figure that it all works out until I come across some client that 
> says sure, they can play mp3's, subscribe me to the stream please, or 
> send the url, or whatever, my client needs to let it's user know the 
> capabilities of each contact's client so I can send a mp3 to contact1, 
> have a video conference with contacts 2,3,4 and 5 or translate client 
> 7 into German and so on .... which is where I'd rather be, so if it's 
> at all possible to set things up as close to the recommended format as 
> I can, I'd like to do that.
>
> I'm no real expert on these protocols and JEPs, I've skimmed numerous 
> documents in the course of coding my client, but I'm much more of a 
> copier than anything, so I guess I'd like a little direction, it's not 
> as if I can't rewrite code later or anything, I'm just wondering if I 
> should just do things my own way and keep it as modular as I can so 
> that later I can conform to protocol?
>
> I'll make another attempt to look at all those documents a bit more 
> closely and appreciate any comments as to how I should go about this. 
> I realize that maybe that there is something I've missed, but yes, I 
> am trying to become familiar with the protocols but no, it isn't the 
> main thing I do so don't hit me if I'm slow.
>
> Greg.
>
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