Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] patched GM 0.85.1 (anxiously waiting for the Win port)

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Guilhem, Im contacting you offline to not perturb the mailing list.


Le lun 06/05/2002 à 02:58, Guilhem Tardy a écrit :
> Hi Damien,
> 
> As you may remember, I was working towards a demo of the OpenH323 stack for the
> end of April. This took place last Tuesday and proved successful. I used your
> software, because it is the best looking one around (which is important for
> demo-ware) using OpenH323, and didn't require many changes. You'll find in
> attachment the patch from GM 0.85.1 to the current state on my HD. Let me
> review here those changes in the order of the patch:
> 
> + adding to buttons in the pref window to (de)select the H.261 and H.263
> capabilities
> + more flexible way of indentifying a video capability (vs. audio)
> + move up the disableH245Tunneling inside the if() {...}
> + initialize color_format to NULL in GMVideoGrabber::GMVideoGrabber()
> + merged "case 3:" and "default:"
> + inversed height and width in VGOpen()
> 
> As you can see, the changes were minimum at the GM level (and I am glad so!).
> Given that no free H.263 codec is currently available, all the corresponding
> stuff may be kind of irrelevant to you.
> Still, it would be nice at some point to allow as much flexibility for the
> video codecs as for the audio codecs in ordering the capabilities (codecs and
> respective video sizes). For instance, H.263 also supports SQCIF, 4CIF and
> 16CIF (although the latter is very unlikely).
> Another idea would be to allow the preview image while in a call not to be
> taken from the codec, but from another video capture device instead (possibly
> pre-scaled).
> 
> You also may consider adding the second file (do_conf) to the FAQ, as an
> example on how to configure GM on a SUSE73 distribution before compiling.
> 
> Let me add that I came across the thread today between you and Juergen. It is
> so that people tend to voice more criticism (sometime superficially) than
> acknowledgement. Rest assured that many enjoy GM and the OpenH323 stack. For
> me, it was initially a great research tool (that's the audio measurement stuff
> I mentioned once to you, for which I needed an H.323 client). It's not perfect
> (what is?), but the whole thing is in source for us to play with in our little
> projects. Tomorrow will be another day.
> 
> Regards,
> Guilhem.
> 
> 
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