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Date:      Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:52:37 +0100
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: watching home via Internet
Message-ID:  <20111229185237.GA1314@tiny>
In-Reply-To: <20111229172217.GB89588@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <20111229150207.GA1729@tiny> <20111229172217.GB89588@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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El día Thursday, December 29, 2011 a las 06:22:17PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo escribió:

> too much bandwidth, the video would travel uncompressed.
> you are better off running skype or
> a videophone app on the remote system (ignore the display)
> and receive the compressed stream with another skype/vidphone.

I do use Skype, but I discarded this idea because I did not realized
that the remote end (Skype at home) can be configured to answer the
incoming call by its own -- it can! I will check this out; thanks for
pointing to this;

> there is a nice phone app called 'baresip' which also
> does video and has a command line interface, see
> 
> http://www.creytiv.com/baresip.html

will check this as well

	matthias
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