[Adium-devl] It's that time again, folks!

[Sean Egan]

On 2/16/07, Evan Schoenberg <evan at adiumx.com> wrote:
> Sean, is there a reasonable way that an Adium student could get involved in
> voice-video?  On the other hand, would it be reasonable for a student to
> tackle that from the Gaim side, or is your work not at that point (either
> too far or not far enough)?

-vv is really hard. I certainly wouldn't wish it on anyone, much less
some poor student. I would suggest a good project for Adium would be
getting Gstreamer building on OSX, integrated into Adium's buildchain,
coming up with a UI for audio and video, connect the UI to gst, and
then test it out to see how it works (you can easily connect it to
test audio and video sources, or, like, play DVDs in Adium ;)).

That way, you find out whether gstreamer is feasible (as opposed to
idle speculation), and already have everything in place for when Gaim
is ready to do -vv. And if it turns out gstreamer on OS X sucks, we'll
know about it, and can keep that in mind when implementing -vv.

Also, re: Skype, we had made it a suggestion for SoC '05, and then
realized that it's basically impossible for a single student to do in
a few months. We turned down anyone who applied for it.

You *can* do the approach Miranda takes (require the Skype client to
be running and talk to it via IPC, using its API). That would be
Adium-specific, but I wouldn't recommend it.

-s.