[mythtv] Video Conferencing Plugin

[Paul Volkaerts]

> >
> > - Voice and/or video calls between Mythfrontend's
>
> Intercom alike?

Thats the plan - I want to do profiles so some callers will autoanswer like
an intercom whilst others will need to be manually answered.  But the
problem, of course, is that much of this would only work whilst actually on
the specific screen and not whilst watching TV.  So for now, you can place
calls between Mythfrontends (whether on the same system or across the
Internet) but you have to answer the call by going into the specific plugin.

>
> My network config is maybe rather odd, I've got two 'broadband routers'
> stringed together. My frontend upstairs is seperated by a NAT.
> So, does that
> work with NAT's too?

There is some NAT support built-in, if you have a fixed router IP address,
and I have plans for an IP-address discovery mechanism too (maybe STUN) but
its pretty untested as I don't have NAT.


>
> > - Screenpops on an incoming call when your watching TV
>
> PiP or just 'Caller IDs'?

Just uses the capability already there to give caller-id.  Would be nice to
be able to auto-answer from this screen; but my philosophy has been to avoid
any change sto the core Myth code until I get a first release.

>
> > - Unanswered calls get routed to a VXML script which uses a
> Text-To-Speech
> > engine to either prompt for voicemail or read out the TV guide
> and allows
> > recordings to be scheduled using DTMG keys
>
> Talking about myths...

:-)  Works pretty well if you like a Dalek reading the TV guide to you.