On Sunday 22 February 2009 00:52, Rony wrote:
Hello,
There is an advt. of CISCO where a group of people from China and Some European country come face to face virtually on huge screens. Is this really possible or just trick photography? If possible, it would not only help in overseas conferencing but also in huge office complexes where one has to travel a long distance or even a few floors to get to the boss's cabin or some place else. The normal video conferencing has a very small screen where one cannot even move one's head or it would get out of the visible area. With high resolution videos, a huge life size image is possible and groups of people can talk to each other. It has a fantastic effect and looks really good.
Keeping aside the cost and availability of net bandwidth, is this possible with Linux.
It is
If it is not very expensive, could we actually setup a prototype in HBCSE during our forthcoming GLUG meets over the months?
We can. Good idea. Setup a streaming video cum conference system. We could also experiment with doc sharing. FOSS setup for e-learning.
A LAN cable should provide good bandwidth for intraoffice video conferencing. We can link up two classrooms or the lab and classroom. We already have a projector and a 17/19" LCD screen. I am sure this has good commercial potential too for big corporate offices.
The bandwidth requirements for a D1 res is 8Mbps per feed. That is the main cost. Also the ad does not tell you that you need a properly setup room, not azad maidan to do any video conference.