Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 18:04:25 GMT From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: conferencing tools, Netmeeting, Communicator Message-ID: <199802091804.SAA11097@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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I would like to get a picture of the conferencing tools situation once more. There are solutions working in the Win32 field now quite neatly, MS Netmeeting and Netscape Communicator work in common - I tried it out herei (though not in depth). MS Netmeeting has the additional feature that it allows to export a remote Windows screen to the caller (a thing that X windows had per se from it's initial design but it's quite unlikely that one will be able to export a windows screen by means of these tools to the X11 world - despite of looking at things like NTrigue or such) I wonder if there could be made a working Communicator version with audio/video now that Netscape will be releasing source code for their browsers this quarter - they said. What remains left for the unix world so far are then vic/vat/wb/sd which are the choices in the high energy physics world (CERN) at present but this may change also in a year or two when the NTmania has taken over that field as well. Under NT, btw, I had very satisfactory results with the cheapo (20 $) Opti 931 based ISA sound cards allowing full duplex. BTW, what is the status of support for the Opti 931 chipset (Luigi?) I once learned this chipset to be broken but seeing how these cards works nicely with dual DMA under NT I wonder if this 'brokeness' is just a lack of knowledge of hoe to circumvent perhaps certains flaws of the chipset by programming kludges - dunno. Comments? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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