Webcam

MacCuajo · Post by **MacCuajo** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:03 am

there's a new library able to encode the logitech codec (MSN Webcam) so it could be used for Webcam on Adium .. here is the link http://www.jblinux.net/libmimdec/ (it's Multi OS , it only has to be programmed in the Mac language

mpaggi · Post by **mpaggi** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:16 am

wow.. any adium developer willling to look at this?

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:24 am

The devs started Webcam support already, but this might be easier…

But I'm not a dev so how would I know?

Post by **Catfish_Man** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:27 am

zaudragon wrote:The devs started Webcam support already, but this might be easier…

But I'm not a dev so how would I know?

Totally different. Getting from the webcam to Adium isn't handled by this code at all. This handles decoding (and encoding, possibly) MSN video streams.

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:38 am

Catfish_Man wrote:
zaudragon wrote:The devs started Webcam support already, but this might be easier…

But I'm not a dev so how would I know?
Totally different. Getting from the webcam to Adium isn't handled by this code at all. This handles decoding (and encoding, possibly) MSN video streams.

Just noticed that…

dchoby98 · Post by **dchoby98** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:57 am

And just so as to NOT get anyone's hopes up... we haven't really implemented webcam support at ALL yet. There's nothing working in source, and nobody is actively working on it. Sorry.

djmori · Post by **djmori** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:50 pm

but this looks very usefull!!

cruciarius · Post by **cruciarius** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:39 pm

and IF the devs were to start working on it, i hope they would put up a poll where we could vote on what gets webcam first, unless it'll just work with them all. i personally don't have MSN, soif they made it work with only MSN, it'd be useless to me. i'd say a poll should be done on which should get it first...IF they even make it.

Post by **Catfish_Man** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:53 pm

cruciarius wrote:and IF the devs were to start working on it, i hope they would put up a poll where we could vote on what gets webcam first, unless it'll just work with them all. i personally don't have MSN, soif they made it work with only MSN, it'd be useless to me. i'd say a poll should be done on which should get it first...IF they even make it.

What makes you think they have a choice? This library only works with MSN, so if they use it, guess what gets support first... (and that's a big if, anyway)

dchoby98 · Post by **dchoby98** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:44 am

I doubt we'd use that library anyhow. No reason to use a library that ONLY works on one protocol when gaim-vv (however slowly they may be progressing) will presumably work on at least the "big three." We should wait and use their work when it's done, instead of doing a halfway job now.

Ethion · Post by **Ethion** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:12 am

Look what I found.. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/25617

MSN with webcam support..

Post by **The_Tick** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:49 am

I think it can only receive, not send.

David Munch · Post by **David Munch** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:07 pm

The_Tick wrote:I think it can only receive, not send.

AFAIK the dev has some send-support working right now.

Post by **bgannin** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:07 pm

Pointing out what others have done is just about useless.

MacCuajo · Post by **MacCuajo** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:14 pm

Ethion wrote:Look what I found.. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/25617

MSN with webcam support..

Mercury is so damn slow (JAVA!!) .. it eats all your system ...

Ethion · Post by **Ethion** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:08 pm

Well I tried, and I when I saw it in action. It sucked ass..
Oh and it's in Java.. Bullshit

Post by **The_Tick** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:32 pm

MacCuajo wrote:
Ethion wrote:Look what I found.. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/25617

MSN with webcam support..
Mercury is so damn slow (JAVA!!) .. it eats all your system ...

But it has a very cool alternate splash screen

snoop-tom · Post by **snoop-tom** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:07 pm

and it support extra emoticon and fast file transfert (direct connect) and much mor function.
But Adium is still the best :-)

2manydjs · Post by **2manydjs** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:47 pm

Hi,

i've searched the forum, but I couldn't find the reason why
Gaim-vv isn't suitable for Adium.
Can someone explain?

Thanks!

Ps Love Adium keep up the good work, can't wait for 0.8!

David Munch · Post by **David Munch** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:13 pm

2manydjs wrote:Hi,

i've searched the forum, but I couldn't find the reason why
Gaim-vv isn't suitable for Adium.
Can someone explain?

Thanks!

Ps Love Adium keep up the good work, can't wait for 0.8!

It is. Its just very early in development..