[jdev] Jabber/Helix Grant dead?

[Marc Manthey]

On 06. Feb 2005, at 8:51 Uhr, Justin Karneges wrote:

> 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.

could it be  reasonable to follow these steps

...
  reverse-engineering the Skype telephony protocol....
....
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~library/TR-repository/reports/reports-2004/ 
cucs-039-04.pdf

or isn´t  it  impossible to make room conferencing  with skype protocol?

>
>>> 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/
>
> 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.

no worry´s . just askin the list;).

marc
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