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Interesting news...

"Tonight, Ole André Vadla Ravnås of the Farsight project (LGPL), which 'is an audio/video conferencing framework specifically designed for Instant Messengers' for the GNU Linux operating system, finished coding a release candidate of libmimic, 'an open source video encoding/decoding library for Mimic V2.x-encoded content (fourCC: ML20), which is the encoding used by MSN Messenger for webcam conversations.' Ole, on the libmimic site, remarks that 'It should be noted that reverse-engineering for interoperability is 100% legal here in Norway (and in most European countries).' Looks like the Free/Open Source Software movement is very close to closing up one of the most noticeable software gaps remaining from its glorious efforts."

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Does this mean Adium and other similar projects might soon get MSN webcam compatibility?

I just read this myself and headed straight here!

From the sounds of things, this will end up being utilised by the gaim-vv libraries. I know that Adium uses gaim for its protocol support, although I don't know how much the two projects (gaim, gaim-vv) differ.

I guess that if/when Adium adopts the gaim-vv libraries, this new development with MSN support will be also gained 'for free'.

Which, as they say, would be nice

Chris

gaim-vv is just a plugin for gaim, and is not linked to gaim in any way except for the fact that gaim-vv is made for gaim.

wow! This is great news!!

nice! any toughts adium devs?

djmori wrote:nice! any toughts adium devs?

My conjecture is that the devs would turn away this new library and use gaim-vv instead.

I think it's useless having a library for one service while gaim-vv can handle all of them INCLUDING that service. Have you seen the gaim-vv screenshots? They already had primitive MSN webcam support.

gaim-vv is going to include farsight for its MSN support.

Also, gaim-vv is not an endall solution, because OS X has much different methods of talking to the webcams and has the entire Quicktime framework to work with.

the devs say they would use gaim-vv for voice and video support i guess when gaim-vv implements this the adium devs can start about thinking to include vv into adium, which would be truly great.