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Get to Know GnomeMeeting
JigSaw writes "OSNews has a nice review/introduction to GnomeMeeting discussing its setup, usage and features. Some screenshots are included."
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50% of the time they won't answer your call
If you're wondering why, just look at what can greet you if you dare answer.
Overall, Gnomemeeting is one of the very interesting Linux/Unix apps for video-conferencing and while there are still problems here and there it is a sexy and fun app to run. It is not as polished usability-wise as the iSight/iChat combo, but it does the job. Get a supported cheap web camera if you already don't have one (you don't really need the latest and the greatest) and come join the *nix geeks online! You never know, you might meet the love of your life over there (well, it was IRC for me back in the day, but technology progresses, now you will be able to see to whom you are talking to ;-).
And the most important point of it all (from their FAQ):
2.2. Does it work with Netmeeting?
Yes, GnomeMeeting is compliant with all H.323 products, software and hardware.
At least the Windows users on the other end don't have to download any additional program, they can just continue to use what they did before...
from the i'm-to-ugly-for-video-chat dept.
So apparantly, even CmdrTaco hates Eugenia Loli-Queru!
Does this mean that all webcams will have to be pointed at a lower level and toward the garden. Gnomemeeting... Get it ...
Ok I'll get back to work .....
Stay tuned for new sig...
Have a look at the Gnome Meeting webpage; there are many more screenshots there with some preferences and other parts of the app shown that don't appear in the OSNews article. -- Steve
when will it communicate with Skype?
I'm a Windows user who wants to use it instead of NetMeeting??
...as reported by CPD.
Here's the report.
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I, for one, would like to welcome our new Gnome ..erm.. Underlords.
it could application share and or whiteboard with NetMeeting. I am sorry, but video conferencing is not novel, certainly not in 2003. Folks have been doing this since 1994 with CU-SeeMe, and vt et al. Cross paltform too, even before H.323.
The largest collection of use cases for NetMeeting involves *no* video, and a lot of application sharing/viewing. I think we all know this. What are the obstacles to getting some kind of linux based solution (please dont say vmware or wine!) that truly can interact with NM on a peer level?
... a decent non-geek screenshot of a multimedia application that makes me *want* to use it:
G no meMeeting_In_A_Call.png
http://www.gnomemeeting.org/screenshots/latest/
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This is an exact quote of the last paragraph of the article mentioned! The post doesn't contain any news
The article suggested there was some firewall issues with this and I see this as a main step holding back videoconferencing.
My parents recently had broadband installed and I advised them to get an ADSL router with firewall (and wireless) built in like I'm using. I then realised we both also have digital cameras which double as webcams so why phone each other when we can videoconference for free! However, a little research and everything I found used H.323 and required a range of thousands of ports to be open which just isn't feasible on a port forwarding firewall.
Are there any single port videoconferencing apps available?
404 Not Found.
I traded a few e-mails last year with Damien (the lead developer). He said a Windows port was being actively worked on and was just a few weeks/months off. Anyone heard anything on this? I was hoping to use GnomeMeeting in our office, where there's no chance of switching to Linux desktops anytime soon.
I did not RTFA, and from experience, we don't need to.
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Please stop reading this site and consign it to the flames of web history. Page views are keeping it alive.
(troll, but I'll bite. Feeling hungry.)
*BUZZ*
Too bad, buddy, you got it all wrong.
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You'll love this
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
1. Gnome. 2. ?????. 3. Profit.
Noticed that it doesn't work with macos X ichat. I noticed that during his introduction S jobs indicated ichat was built using opensource, so my question is how hard would it be to get it to work with ichat?
Shouldn't UPnP take care of all this?
He wasn't attacking gnomemeeting. He was attacking the author of the review. Usually she is criticized for doing that kind of reviews ("ugly interface/tried to install, didn't works, so it sucks"). But anyways, I haven't read that much about her, so I can't really tell if that's true.
1) Bandwidth usage
/ portrait/
2) Encryption
3) Communicating with mobile stuff as in MS Portrait:
http://research.microsoft.com/~jiangli
What are the options for video teleconferencing between Windows and Linux? I use Linux at home, but my parents two states away are Windows users. We've been trying to use Gnomemeeting/Netmeeting for several months now with mixed sucess. It seems that most of the problems seem to be on the Netmeeting end, but with Microsoft retiring Netmeeting there's little hope to get this resolved and Netmeeting doesn't appear to be a viable choice for the future. Are there any other options out there?
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At least the Windows users on the other end don't have to download any additional program, they can just continue to use what they did before...
Gnomeeting is bundled with the GNOME 2.4 Desktop
GNOME user dont need to download anything if they already have GNOME Desktop
Dont substitute Windows with Linux while comparing 2 type of desktop
if we substitute "Windows" with "Gnome Desktop"
your comment will be like this:-
"At least the GNOME Desktop users on the other end don't have to download any additional program, they can just continue to use what they did before..."
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H.323 has serious problems with NAT and firewalls which are kind of hard to solve if you're not your own ISP. And the interoperability between two H.323 compliant products even from two different commercial vendors doesn't seem to be very good either.
i'm-to-ugly-for-video-chat dept
Don't see the problem? It's TOO ugly for video chat, not TO. What is the educational system in this country coming to when people can't even tell the difference between too and to? Do UK/Canadian/non us people have this problem too?
I usually think of her as the queen of scathing reviews of Linux distros. Interesting that this review was neither scathing nor of a linux distro.
Day 1: the first version of gnomemeeting is released.
Day 1.5: Some guy is waving his wand in front of the camera in hope of release.
What is the educational system in this country coming to when people can't even tell the difference between too and to?
Where's LoseNotLooseGuy when you need him? He would mod you up!
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The best feature of gnomemeeting is that it supports 1394 AV/C cameras (aka DV camcorders). That means you can plug in you standard firewire camcorder and use that as your webcam! This requires a recent (and maybe customized) build, but it works quite well.
-molo
Using your sig line to advertise for friends is lame.
If your meeting software transforms your meeting into a multipoint tech support video conference, the software is not ready for primetime.
The software needs to be invisible - it can't impede the act of having the meeeting in any way. Currently no solution, including NetMeeting, truly achieves this goal.
There's also an answermachine available compatible with gnomemeeting/netmeeting available. You can find it here: http://www.openh323.org/code.html.
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I tried to get GNOMEMeeting a couple of years ago. Back then, my harddisk space was limited and I used Slackware. This means that I got to think twice before installing any software, because of the space constraints, and because of the effort in configuring, compiling and installing a package and every single dependency.
I had been able to get by without GNOME and KDE; most apps I used being GTK+ apps that could be compiled with or without GNOME. Not GNOMEMeeting. However, I figured that I could install the GNOME libraries and get not only GNOMEMeeting, but also some mighty cool features in my other apps...after all, there had to be a reason why people use the GNOME libraries, right?
Well, for some reason I don't remember I couldn't or wouldn't install GNOME from packages. So of I went to download, configure, compile and install every single component. Eventually I had a working GNOME install.
And then I got stuck...it turned out I also needed some libraries to support H.323, but couldn't get them compiled due to lack of virtual memory - I had 384 MB, which is exactly what the manual said I would need, but apparently was just not enough. Eventually I managed to compile the framework in debug mode - why this takes _less_ memory I still fail to see.
Compiling GNOMEMeeting was complicated by lots of errors apparently caused by the version of OpenH323 I had installed not being quite what GNOMEMeeting expected. Finally I managed to get everything installed and working...and then it turned out that GNOMEMeeting didn't work nearly as well as I had expected it to. In many cases, it just wouldn't connect. Judging from the article, not much has changed in that respect, although I am pleased to see that GM works with NAT now.
Now you may see the above as me blaming GM for Slackware lacking a good packaging system (mostly suffering from the lack of packages made for it), and that is indeed one source of the hardships I encountered. But I am asking you, and I seriously wonder, why does GM need GNOME? The way I see it, all it has to do is grab video and audio, encode it, and send it over the network, and play the video and audio it receives over the network. To my knowledge, none of these things require GNOME, nor are they easier to implement using GNOME. Am I wrong?
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
gnomemeeting: error while loading shared libraries: libldap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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Let the email flood begin... ;-)
Eugenia Loli-Queru:the microphone
Stela Korakaki:ok
Eugenia Loli-Queru: giving
Eugenia Loli-Queru:yeah pretty good
Eugenia Loli-Queru:i hear that good stuff
Stela Korakaki:
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I love it when people who don't even have the balls to post under a MEANINGLESS USERNAME laud kudos upon other people's posts.
who's that? ... It's Pat!!
Thanks for actually reading my post.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
We only need ONE protocol, not 20
(AIM ICQ IRC YAHOO MSN SKYPE JABBER GABBER and lots lots more)
for each of the following functions!:
Haven't we been playing this game too long? The Internet is supposed to be an information commute, not a traffic jam. Why can't we STANDARDIZE it!? bah! (XML would be nice)
Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about.
they refer to it as an instant messenger...
it's a VOIP client.. the creator of gnome meeting has even stated this.
No she's ugly sir!
It's not the nose, its the eyes, they're crooked!
a bit like your whole face that looks like an ass perhaps?
... but would want a software package where the logo is a smelly foot?