Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Interest for GM 2.00
- From: Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>
- To: GnomeMeeting mailing list <gnomemeeting-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Interest for GM 2.00
- Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:47:57 +0100
Le mercredi 30 novembre 2005 à 22:17 +0000, JGJones a écrit :
> 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.
gnomemeeting -d 3 > output.txt 2>&1
Just mail me the output of a call that fails and I see if I can explain
it and fix it.
>
> 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
>
> Y Ddraig Goch a ddyry Gychwyn
> Cymru am byth
>
> BSL Video-Group:
> http://mail.bluecheetah.biz/mailman/listinfo/bsl-vgroup_bluecheetah.biz
>
> Deaf-UK Technology Wiki
> http://bslvgroup.mrdini.com/wiki/Main_Page
>
> There are 10 kinds of people in this world: 1) nerds and 2) normals.
>
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