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

[Joshua Lock]

On 17 Feb 2007, at 00:22, 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 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.

Fluendo, a FOSS company working on/with Gstreamer and hiring a bunch  
of Gstreamer hackers, are working on getting Gstreamer running on Mac  
OS X.
Apparently[1] audio already works and video is not far off.

[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/view/uraeus/2007/02/16/0

- J
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Joshua Lock
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