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I use kphone in conjunction with vic video conferencing. I can also recommend openmash for video. You need to make sure that the necessary ports are not blocked and tat you do port forwarding for incoming calls if you have a router. kphone is a real SIP/VoIP client. The SIP protocol does not look you in to a particular vendor (such as the Skype protocol does). However there are SIP providers with a gateway which only accepts certain providers.

Open Mash was funded for a while by the NSF, a common source of academic funding. I'm not sure if you and your colleagues are in an academic setting, but the Open Mash web site does have the proposals and reviews of those proposals available on the site. Check out the Papers and Publications area.

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking when you talk about measuring the results of an open source project for publication. But any proposal would have to talk about why the project you are proposing has value in-line with the goals of the committee or group you are submitting the proposal to. Knowing exactly what those goals are can be difficult. This is one of those situations where you really have to tailor your writing to the specific reader(s).

Open Mash was funded for a while by the NSF, a common source of academic funding. I'm not sure if you and your colleagues are in an academic setting, but the Open Mash web site does have the proposals and reviews of those proposals available on the site. Check out the Papers and Publications area.

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking when you talk about measuring the results of an open source project for publication. But any proposal would have to talk about why the project you are proposing has value in-line with the goals of the committee or group you are submitting the proposal to. Knowing exactly what those goals are can be difficult. This is one of those situations where you really have to tailor your writing to the specific reader(s).

OpenMash

This is where I used to work at Berkeley. The Berkeley Multimedia Research Center was big on the MBone for a while.

NoMetterHowU STREAM Baby, ItsThe PLAYER That COUNTS!

Once the worst server (and therefore opensourced) Darwin now is becoming the best one, but the user side is still problematic.

No multimedia player that works on several platforms that supports more than a few formats and standards (like SMIL and Flash) which might be as important as good video codecs for high qualtity experiance.

So far OpenMASH, Finish/international project which is going Java way.

The most interesting work is currently done by OpenSoftwareStreamingAlliance, which will sone move redisgned and expanded on openstreaming.org

One of interesting web projects is Frequency Clock made by FREE RADIO LINUX people of the r a d i o q u a l i a.

If you want some real experience working on software development, try asking your professors. After all, many of them are working on large software projects and could always use your slave labor. The resources and projects are there. It sounds like you just haven't taken the time to look in your own backyard.

If you really want open-source, then professors are still a good person to ask because they are probably working on open-source software projects funded by the NSF or some other government agency (well, at least those at public institutions probably are, since the private ones may have deals with industry). I've been working on Open Mash, a very large open-source project, for two years now because my faculty advisor is the guy heading that project.

For Mash, we have a C++ base that provides all of the lower-level multicast multimedia functionality and we use Tcl/Tk to create the applications. The C++ code lets us implement the low-level functionality (such as JPEG decoding, RTP transport, etc.) efficiently, but using Tcl/Tk to interface with the C++ makes it very easy to develop applications, test new ideas, and not worry too much about cross-platform UI.

Of course, you can't take a normal Tcl/Tk binaries and just arbitrarily call compiled C code, so we do require custom tclsh and wish binaries which have the C++ objects built into it. Our custom binary lets you define a C++ class as a subclass of TclClass. Then, we use otcl and tclcl within tclsh and wish to refer to those C++ classes as Tcl objects.

• Mash is a comprehensive toolkit for multimedia communication and collaboration over the Internet using IP multicast. Mash supports live media broadcasting, N-way conferencing, and session capture and replay.
• Mash is an outgrowth of the Internet MBone tools developed to support streaming audio and video applications. Mash includes versions of MBone tools like sdr, vic, and vat.

• Mash is a comprehensive toolkit for multimedia communication and collaboration over the Internet using IP multicast. Mash supports live media broadcasting, N-way conferencing, and session capture and replay.
• Mash is an outgrowth of the Internet MBone tools developed to support streaming audio and video applications. Mash includes versions of MBone tools like sdr, vic, and vat.