[jdev] Jabber/Helix Grant dead?

[Justin Karneges]

On Saturday 05 February 2005 11:29 pm, Marc Manthey wrote:
> On 06. Feb 2005, at 8:05 Uhr, Justin Karneges wrote:
> > Sorry, the project has been cancelled.  The work was too large for the
> > available funds, and there are some unresolved Helix SDK licensing
> > problems.
>
> thats  sad, can you explain a bit  closer ?
> you mean a "content lizensing problem " or "server lizensing problem?

The audio/video capture driver is not open source.  They don't support a 
modern server codec that's free.

> what could  be  a reasonable solution ?

Opening the AV driver, writing vorbis/speex encoder plugins.

> > This doesn't mean it can't continue some other day if these problems
> > are
> > resolved.  My work is publically available, and can be resumed.
>
> is there  no way  to work with another open or nearly open
> streaming  server like  darwin ?
>
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/streaming/

I don't know, I'm really not up on all the various options out there.  I was 
paid to work with Helix, and so that's what I know.

But this is beside the point.  Even if there was a very good alternative 
library/SDK to use, the other problem is I don't have time to do this task as 
a hobby.

-Justin