From: Gina Miller (nanogirl@halcyon.com)
Date: Fri Dec 17 1999 - 17:20:06 MST
Thank you Robert, that's the kind of information I was looking for.
Gina
>On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
>> Gina Miller writes:
>> > Can someone suggest a FREE video conferencing software url, that I can
>> > dowload for use with a philips pc camera? I am running on Windows 98.
I
>>
>> You're running the wrong operating system. Move to an OpenSource OS,
>> and solve your "looking for free but legal warez" permanently.
>>
>> There is no noticeable OpenSource community for MS OSses.
>>
>
>Eugene, while in principle, I could not agree with your comments
>*more*, I am inclined to disagree in practice.
>
>I've been trying to videoconference for perhaps 5 years
>and the questions Gina asks are application specific and
>should not be tossed off onto an OS/politics debate.
>
>The bottom line, from my perspective is that there are perhaps
>3 videoconferencing "nodes": CuSeeMe, Microsoft NetMeeting
>and Intel's videoconferencing. There is a common ground
>between these three which I believe is a standard called H 321 or
>something similar.
>
>Intel's perspective was determined by physical boards designed
>to videoconference over dedicated ISDN lines. CuSeeMe's perspective
>went from entirely academic to pseudo-commercial when I think it
>got co-opted by White Pine. Microsoft has a valid entry with
>Net Meeting, the problem is that there are a limited number of
>host servers and your performance may vary.
>
>I do no know where these stand vis-a-vis Linux. I will state for the
>record, that Linux is probably a year or more behind state-of-the-art
>with regard to complementary hardware/software solutions. I will
>also state that from my brief impression of installing Linux and
>examining some of the code that *CURRENTLY*, LINUX and Microsoft
>offerings are of about equal quality.
>
>Microsoft has the advantage of having (in theory) highly trained
>professionals working on the development (with the nemesis of closed
>source). Linux has the advantage of open source but suffers in various
>areas from a lack of "professional" developers. From my perspective of
>many many years in the software industry, these net out about equal.
>
>If you are trying to video-conference over the net, for now I would
>go with Microsoft Netmeeting, with CuSeeMe (the non-open-source
>version) as a backup. I do not know of any "free" package that is
>up to state-of-the-technology with regard to video-conferencing.
>
>Robert
>
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