[TriLUG] iChat to GnomeMeeting (or simialer)

[David A. Cafaro]

Thanks for the reply, I'd actually gotten some of that info which was
very encouraging (Seems Mr Jobs doesn't want Mac people talking to
anyone else non-mac).  But I did finally find something last night that
may work out:

This Xmeeting is supposed to be working now (beta):
http://xmeeting.sourceforge.net/

And here is mention of the fact that GnomeMeeting has been at least
partially ported to Mac OSx (found on fink):
http://www.eqinfo.ucsd.edu/~atul/research/videoconf/videoconf.html

Will take a little playing but I think one of these may work out.

Cheers,
David



On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 19:40, Bill Vinson wrote:
> David,
> 
> The video conferencing portion of uses SIP for signaling, H.263 for 
> video, and PureVoice QCELP (Quicktime Audio Codec) for sound.  
> GnomeMeeting uses H.323 (same as Microsoft's NetMeeting).  
> Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to interact.  Based on my 
> limited understanding of this, H.323 has historically had problems or 
> difficulties with NAT.  I believe iChat shares some features in common 
> with VOIP (SIP is what I am thinking of here) and is designed to work 
> even if NAT is used.  This is why I think Apple may have gone a 
> different route.  I could be wrong on some (or all) of this, but I 
> think that is the situation...
> 
> Sorry I couldn't be of more help,
> Bill
> 
> 
> On Jan 28, 2004, at 10:43 AM, David A. Cafaro wrote:
> 
> > I have a friend on a Mac with an iSight camera and iChat, I'm on a 
> > Linux
> > computer with a webcam, mic and GnomeMeeting.  Anyone ever heard of or
> > tried to get the two to talk and work together.  Any clues would be
> > appreciated.  I'm doing the google search, but no strong leads yet.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -David