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Right, I asked the_tick about this. And he wanted me to make a thread.

I was reading the A/V ticket, and I saw someone mentioning libmimic and Mercury.
So there I thought, thinking that joscar works well under Adium, being that joscar is being developt with Java instead of C or cocoa (?).

And as Mercury is from what I know mainly developed in java.

Anyway, would it be worth a try and port Mercury's video implementation to Adium?

Being that alot of people is requesting a video function for Adium, specially MSN.

I haven't really studied Mercury's code, and I have no idea what kind of implementation it would require to make it work under Adium.

People don't think it's going to happened over night, or that this is a faster way for us to get Video. There would still need people working on it.

*And why do I have a feeling that Farsight is finished with their implemenation of the MSN webcam protocol?
http://projects.collabora.co.uk/trac/fa ... /MsnWebcam

Since Adium's MSN implementation is based on gaim, which is plain C, I think you'll need to rewrite Mercury's A/V implementation if you want to make it work with gaim.
With that being said, it'll be much easier to just take the core of Mercury and write a plugin based on it that'll support A/V (or even make it a ChatKit plugin! ).

besides mercury is closed source.

zerock wrote:besides mercury is closed source.

mercury.to wrote:The library Mercury uses for the encoding and decoding are released under LGPL, Decoding, Encoding, these libs are a 'translation' of the libmimic library by Ole André Vadla Ravnås.

.. you can actually download the libraries from mercury.to

MacCuajo wrote:

zerock wrote:besides mercury is closed source.

mercury.to wrote:The library Mercury uses for the encoding and decoding are released under LGPL, Decoding, Encoding, these libs are a 'translation' of the libmimic library by Ole André Vadla Ravnås.

.. you can actually download the libraries from mercury.to

oh thats cool then :-)

Is Farsight + Gaim = gaim-vv? Farsight looks pretty promising!

Kiel :-)

Arenzera wrote:Is Farsight + Gaim = gaim-vv? Farsight looks pretty promising!

Kiel :-)

Someone correct me if I am wrong here, but Farsight is just a framework/API which alredy got all of the audio video features "decyphered".

But gaim-vv has joined with gaim, and what I've seen it seems that it has stopped in development. Although I haven't checked the source.

Those libraries that you can download from Mercury.to are only needed on Windows and Linux. On Macs, there's no need to install extra libraries to make Mercury and webcam work.

More information can be found here. There is some links in there too.