[mythtv-users] Mythphone

[Ben Dash]

--- Nick Ellson wrote:
> 
> Did you install MythStrobe? ;) (Sorry, couldn't
> resist)
> 
> I am using a Intel Pro Cam USB (no audio on the
> camera) but the Gentoo 
> Kernel didn't have drivers for it, so I had to
> emerge the sct5xx drivers.

Never hear of Mythstrobe.  Are you joking based on my
switching the lights on and off comment?  Driver wise
I think I'm good, both cameras, on their respective
PCs, work fine, although the Quickcam Express is on a
PC with a rubbish mic and I need to buy a new one. 
The Quickcam 4000 mic seems fine based on my cat
/dev/dsp1 tests.

> I have tested the 612 time-of-day FWD number with
> audio. I have had 
> external friends try to connect to me using the FWD
> client and have seen 
> the same sort of result. Good local video, but
> sketchy connects with 
> others outside. (DSL 768/1.5 ) 

Cable 3Mb/s down 256Kb/s up, I scaled the video size
down to minimum and I think that it was within the
limits.  Perhaps it's just that simple.  I wish I
lived 2 miles away where I could get FIOS 15Mb/s down
2Mb/s up :-( Can I go LAN P2P without going through
the WAN for intercom-like functionality?

I wonder if anyone has a tiny webcam working on the
Zaurus since the newer versions have USB host
capability?  It would make an interesting mobile sip
video client.

> I have not had time
> to really dig in and 
> watch what is going on. Ethereal has a bunch of
> decodes for SIP/Skinny so 
> I was thinking of taking a peak at what it sees. Do
> audio only calls work 
> reliably?

I've had my FWD number for years but never actually
used it.  I'll try calling myself from my land line; I
have unlimited long distance calls in the USA so any
US city POTS to FWD gateway should work for a test.

> On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Ben Dash wrote:
> 
> > I finally set up Mythphone, after being too
> > lazy/busy/etc to do so until now, and I had a
> couple
> > of questions:
> >
> > 1 - The Quickcam 4000 snd-usb-audio microphone
> appears
> > to work based upon cat /dev/dsp1 > temp.wav than
> cat
> > temp.wav > /dev/dsp does indeed play the audio of
> me
> > saying "testing testing" but calling 613 doesn't
> seem
> > to produce any noticable echo, is this normal?
> >
> > 2 - I have 2 machines with mythphone,
> 192.168.0.249
> > and 192.168.0.238, both can call 613 and receive
> test
> > calls from fwd and both are going through the
> firewall
> > nat with port forwrding set up for
> 5060/21232/21234
> > and 5061/22232/22234 respectively, however, things
> are
> > very touch and go as to whether I'll get a
> > bidirectional video feed.
> >
> > I'm using mythphone 0.19 from Gentoo unstable.
> >
> > It seems that one machine, 249, can call 238 and
> get a
> > video response perhaps 60% of the time.  In fact
> the
> > machine doing the calling seems about 60% likely
> to
> > get video.  The machine doing the answering hardly
> > ever gets video.  if anything the answering
> machine
> > may get a quich screenshot from the webcam, of the
> > side of my head as I get up to see the display in
> the
> > other room yet again :-)
> >
> > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
> >
> > I have fine local video on each machine, although
> they
> > both have different webcams, quickcam 4000 and
> > express.
> >
> > Interestingly I can sometimes prompt a screen
> refresh
> > by turning the lights on and off, wierd!
> >
> >
> >
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