my list: 1) HTML5 whiteboard 2) faster screen sharing 3) wicketstuff-poi for HTML5 document sharing (otherwise we should use images somehow) 4) Apache compatible wysiwyg editor Wicket component (to be used in chat/invitations/messages)
TBD On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:16 AM, seba.wag...@gmail.com < seba.wag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Regarding point No2: > Compression ratio in the screensharing is somehow limited to the available > codecs we can use. > We can use SHA1 and SHA2 (Adobe Screen Sharing Codec). > I think we currently use SHA1, SHA2 might be a nice project for a student > that is interested in coding some codec. > And I think we can provide a reference implementation somewhere. > I think this project has good chances and a well defined scope. > > @Daniel: Screenshot tool is also a nice idea, but it would end up to be > part of the screensharing Web-Start application. Is that what you intend to > propose? > > Sebastian > > > 2013/2/12 seba.wag...@gmail.com <seba.wag...@gmail.com> > > Hi Ed, >> >> thanks for your ideas. >> >> About idea no 1: >> That is an interesting idea, however it won't be possible that you >> provide a "free to choose" bandwidth for each user. >> The background is: Every stream that any client consumes has to be >> created somewhere. >> So what could be realized is that every stream that is broadcasted from >> one user via webcam to Red5/OpenMeetings will be re-transcoded into >> multiple streams (high, middle, low) bandwidth. >> >> So there might be some limitations to that: >> - "high" quality will never be better then the original material. We >> can't make a picture better then the original. So all re-transcoding will >> only make the original to lower quality, never to higher. >> - Re-transcoding has to happen on the server side (and number of streams >> are limited, we can't provide a stream on the required bandwidth >> "on-demand" for each user, or only with very big effort) >> - it will require real-time transcoding on server side which is possible >> with FFMPEG and some integration into Red5. But we would need a very >> specialized student that is keen and very motiviated as there is hardly any >> documentation on that available in the internet. >> What a project makes a success is if all participant know the potential >> outcome and the tools and methods that are needed to realize that. I would >> be happy to put this project on our list but it will be difficult to find >> somebody with the needed skills. >> >> Sebastian >> >> >> >> 2013/2/12 BBS Technik <dormiti...@gmx.de> >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I think, one of the gratest liminations for satisfactory video >>> conferencing with om is the limited bandwidth of internet connections of >>> the clients . >>> Therefore I would like to suggest the following ideas for a GSoC project >>> : >>> >>> 1. The image size of the videos transferred from the om server to the >>> clients should be adapted to the video window size set in the recipient >>> client. >>> Thus the recipient client itself could influence the transferred amount >>> of data to it. >>> Then all the participants achieve the best possible result for them. >>> >>> 2. A second proposal concerns that the screensharing bandwidth >>> requirements has an great impact on the overall quality of the video >>> conference. >>> Here, in a project the existing function of sreen sharing could be >>> expanded and enhanced. >>> For example, the possibility for the transfer on only one application >>> window, regardless of its size. >>> Or the possibility of shared browsing with a locally installed browser. >>> Moreover, certainly an improvement of the used compression method would >>> be a very good project topic. >>> >>> I would be happy if the subject of bandwidth consumption would plays a >>> role in the selected GSoC project . >>> >>> Best regards >>> >>> Ed >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -------- Original-Nachricht -------- >>> > Datum: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:44:54 +1300 >>> > Von: "seba.wag...@gmail.com" <seba.wag...@gmail.com> >>> > An: dev <d...@openmeetings.apache.org> >>> > CC: user@openmeetings.apache.org >>> > Betreff: GSoC project ideas wanted >>> >>> > Google Summer of Code is about to start soon! >>> > Google sponsors every student with 4500USD. Plus 500 for the Apache >>> > Foundation. >>> > >>> > We are searching for ideas what porential students can do. >>> > Ideas from Non-Developers are welcome too! >>> > >>> > We will add the ideas to JIRA then with a special label so students can >>> > find it. >>> > >>> > Sebastian >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sebastian Wagner >> https://twitter.com/#!/dead_lock >> http://www.webbase-design.de >> http://www.wagner-sebastian.com >> seba.wag...@gmail.com >> > > > > -- > Sebastian Wagner > https://twitter.com/#!/dead_lock > http://www.webbase-design.de > http://www.wagner-sebastian.com > seba.wag...@gmail.com > -- WBR Maxim aka solomax
