In practice: Ekiga video conference
It happened on this Tuesday (December 11, 2007). By running the latest Solaris Express on laptops, we had the first dual way Ekiga video conference between Sun engineering teams in Beijing and headquarter staff in MPK, US. During the whole meeting, which lasted more than one hour, the video stream is quite stable and the video quality is fine. I like video conferences much than audio only ones. People smile to each other and wave to each other, very nice. Many people know each other by emails or by conference calls, now, they see faces and smiles.
Not like some dedicated video conference equipments, the hardware equipments we used are very simple, just a laptop + a webcams + a projector. All are low cost commodity devices. In Beijing conference room, we use a Lenovo laptop running Solaris Express (build 76) and a Logitech USB webcam. US staff were using the similar equipments.
More detail usage info about Ekiga application and USB webcam driver can be found in my previous blogs:
USB webcams and video conferencing on Solaris
Have a larger video size in Ekiga
I haven't try Ekiga before but may be I will need to check out.
I’d like you to check out our free, online video conferencing service called PalBee.com (http://www.palbee.com)
At PalBee.com, we offer registered users the ability to talk with their colleagues, friends, and acquaintances in a presentation-focused interface that combines the most important features of communication. Visitors of our web site can also use it to record online presentations, which can be viewed at a later time by anyone with an Internet connection and a flash-enabled web browser.
If people would like to add this ability to their own web sites, we offer a Mashup API that registered beta testers can add to their own sites in order to offer free online video conferencing to their own places on the web.
All the best!
Albert
Posted by Albert Kim on January 08, 2008 at 05:53 PM CST #
Colin, it worked out very nicely. I was impressed with the technology.
Posted by Amiram on January 10, 2008 at 11:15 AM CST #
Albert, sorry to say PalBee is just another Linux title, and OpenSolaris/Solaris is not Linux. Using Alsa sound for example alienates us Solaris users, there's no way we can or will adopt a non-native option. While I wish that companies would realize that there are other systems besides Windows/Mac/Linux the conclusion is that only good-quality less restrictive open-source software (BSD/MIT/LGPL) can be successful for us Sun users. Get your marketing team to work with Sun, get a port out. We lack Skype, Gizmo, PalBee, VMware Workstation to name a few closed applications, so porting PalBee in a quality way would definitely hit home to us, we are in desparation for an option that doesn't require a pre-built SIP infrastructure to do what existing free (As in beer) softphone software does. Annoying is an understatement.
James
Posted by James Cornell on April 19, 2008 at 07:36 AM CST #
it worked out very nicely. I was impressed with the technology.
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Not like some dedicated video conference equipments, the hardware equipments we used are very simple, just a laptop + a webcams + a projector. All are low cost commodity devices. In Beijing conference room, we use a Lenovo laptop running Solaris Express (build 76) and a Logitech USB webcam. US staff were using the similar equipments.
More detail usage info about Ekiga application and USB webcam driver can be found in my previous blogs:
USB webcams and video conferencing on Solaris
Have a larger video size in Ekiga
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James
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