Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Interest for GM 2.00

[Johnny Strom <jonny strom netikka fi>]

JGJones wrote:
> Just wanted to say my bit :)
>
> I'm profoundly deaf. Obviously I cannot use telephones. Technologies 
> such as Skype is useless for me.
>
> Videophone are of HUGE importance to me and many other Deaf people that 
> converse in sign language. And there is actually very few quality 
> solutions. However in the USA, the DLink DVC-1000 videophone is very 
> very popular among the Deaf people there - because they can get them for 
> free. Sadly I've not been able to get GnomeMeeting to work with them for 
> some reason - any heads up on that would be nice.
>
> Anyway my point is that with a lack of a good videophone solution (MSN 
> Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger et al might do "video" - for a hearing 
> person, seeing a face, albiet jerky might be fine, but for us sign 
> language users - the smoothness of the video is of criticial 
> importanance. Make it jerky and it become too hard to follow sign 
> language. That is where MSN et al fails.
>
> GnomeMeeting provide decent video rates to the point I can converse 
> almost naturally in sign language.
>
> So don't think that GnomeMeeting is becoming a thing of past. In my view 
> when it comes to video - it's still much much in the present and many 
> others are just playing catch up. I am eagarly looking forward to a 
> Windows port and advising Mac users about the XMeeting - based on 
> GnomeMeeting isn't it? For OSX.
>
> Keep up the great work.
>
> JGJones


Hello

Very good points.

And video is someting I would like to se get better in GM, by use more 
bandwith, with fiber comming along in places so is bandwith not a 
problem anymore.

Cheers Johnny


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