[mythtv-users] MythPhone compatibility
David Rudder
drig at noses.org
Thu Dec 8 12:56:49 EST 2005
MythPhone is based on SIP, which is a standard for VoIP. It appears to
use the G711 codec for audio, which is totally standard and should be
supported by pretty much every SIP compatible voip phone out there. I
*think* the video codec is H263, which is also pretty standard.
There's a Java project called Sip-Communicator. It's a software VoIP
phone. It does video and audio. I've used it for debugging on my
application, which uses voice only, but the mailing lists report good
success w/ video. You might want to download it, install it on a spare
machine, and see if you can get a good connection.
I'm pretty sure, but not being a windows guy I can't be certain, that
NetMeeting uses a different protocol which SIP is not compatible with.
You'll have to find other software. Sip-Communicator is a bear to
setup, but easy to use once configured, and might not be a terrible option.
-Dave
Ben Dash wrote:
>I'm trying to set up Video Conferencing from the US
>with my family back in the UK and I'm trying to find
>out how much success others have had with using
>MythPhone to do video chat with people who use MS
>Win98.
>
>My family haven't even bought their webcam yet, and I
>was pushing them to a Logitec QuickCam Pro 4000, since
>that's what I was planning on using on my xBox
>mythfrontend since it has a microphone built in. So
>they're open to use whatever software works on Win98,
>although they'll probably switch to Linux or OSX soon
>since their patience is rapidly running out with MS
>due to viruses, spyware, etc.
>
>Please let me know you thoughts and experiences.
>
>Thanks!
>
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