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Get to Know GnomeMeeting

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'm-too-ugly-for-video-chat dept.

JigSaw writes "OSNews has a nice review/introduction to GnomeMeeting discussing its setup, usage and features. Some screenshots are included."

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  1. and the most important feature... by garcia · · Score: 5, Informative

    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...

    1. Re:and the most important feature... by azzy · · Score: 2, Informative

      Hmm.. funny... Microsoft plans to phase out

    2. Re:and the most important feature... by popeyethesailor · · Score: 2, Informative

      This doesn't really work anymore AFAIK. Windows XP made Netmeeting obsolete, MSN msgr is the default nowadays. Nobody provides ILS services anymore, except probably the server in the FAQ..

    3. Re:and the most important feature... by frodo+from+middle+ea · · Score: 2, Informative

      Not entirely true....
      <P>They do need to install GSM Codes compiled by the gnomemeeting.org team. These are slightly different than MSN's Codecs. Look at the last entry in their downloads section.<P>
      And the compatibility works only in theory. I have been trying to get this work since pre 0.90 days of gnomemeeting, without any luck. And no I am not behind a firewall, neither is the windows user. and none of us are natted and both have broadband connections.

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  2. More screenshots by Steve+'Rim'+Jobs · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  3. Re:What I want to know is... by SlashDotAgent · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, Skype is only Audio (in the mean time, anyway), but the quality is much better than any other application I tried.

    Sure I could have used Yahoo Messanger (or NetMeeting, or GnomeMeeting) for Audio/Video, but the quality wasn't really worth it. With Skype, I'm already using it instead of the phone.

  4. Re:Firewall ports by silas_moeckel · · Score: 3, Informative

    I know this might be scary but your could just get a firewall thats understands H323 realy this has little to do with the application it's just the standard way to get it accross the internet if your "firewall" (use that term loosly for those home nat products) dosent support the standard fix it. More advanced firewalls read into the h323 packets and dynamicaly open ports for the remote site only.

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  5. Re:Firewall ports by Doug+Dante · · Score: 5, Informative

    GnomeMeeting requires that you open no more than 17 ports for the "worst case" configuration.

    If your firewall supports H.323 forwarding and you only want to make outbound calls, you're done.

    Forward TCP port 1720 to your computer if you want to accept incomming calls.

    If your gateway doesn't support H.323 forwarding:

    Forward TCP port range [30000-30010]
    Forward UDP port range [5000-5003]

    99% of configurations are done here.

    If you're using a gatekeeper, you must also forward UDP port range [5010-5013].

    That's 17 ports in the worst case.

    Here's the link in the FAQ.

    http://www.gnomemeeting.org/index.php?rub=3&pos= 0& faqpage=x269.html

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  6. Re:Windows and Linux Video teleconferencing? by gregarican · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try googling for H.323 freeware. Should be a point in the right direction. If the software is truly standards-based in nature then it should play well...

  7. answer machine by flok · · Score: 2, Informative

    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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