Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Gnomemeeting Fedora core 2 rpm's are ready.

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm caldwell ntu edu au>]

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 14:55 +1000, Craig Southeren wrote:
> Malcolm,
> 
> Damien has some concerns about patent issues and H.263 as implemented by
> the ffmpeg library, and so has decided not to distribute GM with H.263
> support until there is full generic video plugin codec support in
> OpenH323.
> 
> Unfortunately, generic video plugin codec support has been deferred
> indefinitely at this stage due to the lack of time to create a feasible
> way to paramaterise the complex H.323 capability structure. Damien is
> aware of this, so the end result is that GM does not have H.263 support
> now or for the forseeable future.

This is a shame.  For gnomemeeting/openh323 to make inroads into the
video conferencing space we need better codecs.

It would seem that openh323 is slipping into a voip only role, and at
that unless opal matures soon delivering sip support, we are missing the
voip boat as well.

> I've not had much luck with the H.263 code in any case. At the moment,
> there is a serious problem with the H.263 code interacting in horrible
> ways with Windows DLLs in Pandora RC1 and in the latest CVS code. Unless
> I can find time to resolve that issue soon, I may have to disable H.263
> when using OpenH323/PWLib as a DLL
> 
>    Craig
> 
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:43:35 +0930
> Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm caldwell ntu edu au> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 08:50 +0200, Kilian Krause wrote:
> > > Hi Malcom,
> > >  
> > > >> http://snapshots.seconix.com/redhat/
> > > > Do these rpms have h263 included?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Nope. CVS doesn't include H263 support at all.
> > > There is currently no GM at all that would do have H263. Sorry!
> > 
> > I must have missed the thread (if there was one) about H263 being
> > removed?   What was the reason for this?  H263 seems to be much more
> > stable when communicating with various H323 equipment.
> > 
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