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

[Alan Humpherys]

On Feb 16, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Sean Egan wrote:

> 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 second that...  I have spent 500+ hours on VV stuff for AIM  
protocols alone


> 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 ;)).
>

With QuickTime already available to do so much on streaming, display,  
and data capture, It would be SOO much easier to get a class together  
to use QT as the mechanism, but obviously, using gstreamer is  
portable to other (non-Mac) clients...

If we are going for a 10.4 only solution, the QTViewer classes  
litterally make playing content from a source VERY simple.

So, we would need to decide, UI wise how to approach this...  open  
source vs. quicktime



> 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.
>
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