[Adium-devl] GMail A/V chat

[Christopher Forsythe]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im>wrote:

> Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 11, 2008, at 11:50 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:
> >
> >> On Nov 11, 2008, at 20:02:33, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
> >>> Hey guys! I thought this bit of interesting news today would be
> >>> appropriate for this list:
> >>>
> >>> http://mail.google.com/videochat
> >>
> >> That just looks like they extended their in-Gmail GTalk client to
> >> include VV. It doesn't help us add support to our third-party client,
> >> other than maybe for testing purposes.
> >
> >     Yeah, but I guess I imagined at least some part of their
> > implementation could be cast into an XEP or something...
>
> Once Google Talk is updated to use Jingle as defined in XEPs 166, 167,
> and 176, you won't need a special spec to define interop with Google
> Talk. And that updating is on the way. Patience. :)
>
> Now, whether it will all Just Work[tm] may depend on which codecs they
> support for voice and video...
>


As long as the codecs are in ffmpeg, you could piggy back onto it with
perian pretty easily. If not, find a library, get it into perian, and then
you have a solution to the codec problem. Assumedly Adium would be using
quicktime to actually display the video, and I've seen code to load Perian
only when the application launches. At least, that's one way I believe that
it could be done.
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