Thanks! This certainly makes things more clear. While most of the
people on this list are programming geeks, this is still somewhat
outside of the mainstream area of expertise here, so expect to
explain what BSDCS is over and over :-)
In literature, this kind of application is called /Multi-object
Multimedia Applications(MMAs)/.
BTW I haven't found much usage of this term via Google, except for
the BSDCS site.
A few more questions if I may:
* The proposal mentions that BSDCS is currently "an open source [..]
project". Is there currently a place where people outside your team
can access the source code? Among other things, providing access to
source code may help you to find interested developers at Apache.
* This maybe redundant considering the previous question, but what
license are you using at the moment? And also if you rely on any
third-party open source packages, what license those packages require?
Thanks
Andrus
On Aug 29, 2007, at 4:06 AM, t.peng.dev wrote:
When we launched /Blue Sky Distance Collaboration system /
development, we according to some reasons like these:
1. When we are discussing with somebody about a CAD drawing, if we
can only watch video and hear voice of him/her, it's not enough.
If we can are discuss how to use computer, it's much better if
his/her computer screen is available. When we are having a
lesson,
it will be much vivid if teacher's slides, voice,video are
available at the same time. When we are watching a football match
in remote city, if we can watch it from various view point
simultaneously, it becomes a much better enjoyment. This idea is
use multiple scenes in distance communication, it is more than
conference in which comprises only one video and its affiliated
audio. So we use Collaboration instead(message communication is
implement, file share and distribution is scheduled, towarding a
flexible Collaboration platform ). In literature, this kind of
application is called /Multi-object Multimedia
Applications(MMAs)/. In our project, MMAs is used as basic
component of visual and acoustic communication.
2. For MMAs is used in our system, our player and recorder should
have the capability to handle it. So, we developed a customed
player(XPlayer for GNU/Linux, CWPlayer for Win32) and MMA capable
recorder.
In this document(url is below) , there is also screenshot of our
players:
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dcj48f88_09k567f
Andrus Adamchik wrote:
Hi there,
I have a few high level technical questions about the scope of the
system. I am just trying to understand what it is.
* There is a quote 'BSDCS [...] changes the model from the
"conference" to "collaboration"'. So is that video conferencing
software that also allows playback of prerecorded content, or am I
missing some other collaboration aspects?
* Why a custom player? I mean there's nothing wrong with it, but
would it be possible to use the existing players, such as VLC
(http://www.videolan.org/)?
Cheers,
Andrus
On Aug 24, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Ting Peng wrote:
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