Video Conferencing (was Re: [Cialug] Domain Registration)

Barry Von Ahsen barry at vonahsen.com
Fri Apr 7 12:01:21 CDT 2006


Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> On a side note that occurred to me, do any of you know of any video 
> server capabilities under Linux?  For example, if you wanted to have a 
> video conference call with several (or more) h.323 video users, do you 
> know of a Linux project that would handle that? My understanding is that 
> H.323 only allows for point-to-point calls. It seems there are 
> commercial packages that run $20K or more that will somehow handle this. 
> I haven't looked into the new videophone protocol (h.264 I believe). 
> Maybe it allows for it. I don't know. Just thought I would ask.

I found this:
http://myhome.hanafos.com/~soonjp/vclinux.html

ekiga (formerly gnomemeeting) and konference are probably the big two, 
but I can't find anything that specifically says they do multiple users

-barry



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