Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Multicast/mbone with GM?

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

I personally think that's a good idea, but I have no plans to do it
myself as I have no way to test it...


Le mer 29/01/2003 à 10:43, Christian Strauf a écrit :
> Hi there!
> 
> I was wondering what users of GM and developers think about Multicast Video
> Conferencing- and mbone-support for gnomemeeting. I think that
> multicasting/mbone is a very efficient way of video-/audio-conferencing.
> A general overview about multicasting can be found here (RFC3170 -- actually
> pretty easy to read):
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3170.txt?number=3170
> 
> The developers of GM are probably aware of the mbone-standards but for the rest
> of the readers I quickly add some infos and links.
> 
> Communication via the mbone is done by using the Realtime Transport
> Protocol(RTP). This protocol is described in an IETF-Internet-Draft:
> 
> http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-avt-rtp-new-11.txt
> 
> There is a rather complete collection of drafts concerning RTP and mbone here:
> 
> http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/ids.by.wg/avt.html1
> 
> One of the most comprehensive documents is the one on IETF's website about
> Audio/Video Transport (AVT):
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/avt-charter.html
> 
> It collects all information (Internet-Drafts and RFCs) that deal with
> multicasting and RTP. This is probably the best starting point to get familiar
> with the issue.
> 
> I think that gnomemeeting is one of the best, if not *the* best H.323-client I
> know. Since there aren't a lot of free tools for doing mbone-conferencing
> (except maybe for vic and rat which are both rather old and very uncomfortable
> to use), I think that adding mbone-capabilities to gnomemeeting would fill up
> the gap of easy to use and full-featured mbone-clients.
> 
> Just a thought. What do you think?
> 
> Christian
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