[jdev] videoconferencing

[Marc Manthey]

hello  all / carsten,
regarding  this  post
and  had  some  questions  and  thoughts,

> >> Between two endpoints there are many things like firewalls, routers 
> and
> >> the like, this leads to the only solution: a relay or a server.
> > Which of course has some obvious drawbacks. First thing is that 
> someone
> > needs to provide a server (for free) and a _lot_ of bandwidth,
> > especially if you're going to do video.
>
> Yes, that is true, but my point is more that the software, the protocol
> and the servers should be open source.

FULL ACK

>  If you are not happy with a
> server, you are able to create your own. Richard Stallman say's long 
> ago
> that freedom means that you must have the right to copy, share and
> modify the sources. If you want you CAN run your own server perhaps 
> only
> for your family. I feel that this is a bigger issue then ever, with
> software patents at the door of europe and globaly controled standards.
> As you know, one of the reason to doing this is that M$ doens't support
> Win98 anymore.

I  try  to  find  the  cources  of  an  old  protocol  called  cuseeme
and  i  like  to  hear  if  some  body  else  is  interesed  in  
working  on this.

Carsten is  with  www.carminotalks.org  on the  way  to  create a  
multiconferencing  client  as  i  can  see  but  there  is  no  code
and  not  develeopment  in the  last  half  year.
I  am  in  contact  to  a  few  develoepers  and  like
to  bring  www.cuseeme.de back  to the  community.
My  question  is  IF  somebody  know  anyone  , that  probably  know
a  friend  that had  the  "old  cornell client  sources "
plese  drop  me  a  line.
> > Other problem is logistics. If I'm talking to my girlfriend (who 
> lives
> > in the same city) then it's kind of wastefull if that connection goes
> > through some server in the US. This will also add at least 100ms of
> > latency.
>
> That's note Realy a issue. If i be as good as Netmeeting, im happy
> with that. Videoconferencing is nothing really new.

http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/07/cov_21feature.html

>
> > So yes, from a technical point of view using a relay/server is the 
> way
> > to go, it solves quite a bit of firewall/routing problems. But from 
> the
> > user point of view using intermediate servers just sucks :D 
> Especially
> > if those servers go down or can't handle the load.
>
> Yes, that is a problem.
> But i dont see another way to allow connections with more the two 
> people.
>
> > Same thing goed for filetransfer BTW.

https://www.jabber.org/jdev/2003-November/017219.html

talk  soon  cheers

marc

-- 
" Sic transit gloria mundi"
          http://www.cuseeme.de