Video/audio support

[Mark Doliner]

We hope to just use gstreamer and let them take care of which video4linux or
bsd or mac video or windows implementation to use.

-Mark

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:41:48 -0700, Jeff Sadowski wrote
> Question on how to interface with the OS.
> Since libpurple is cross platform how is it planned to work with 
> v4l2, v4l, bsd's implementation, mac video api and, windows video 
> api? I would love to see a cross platform implementation. Maybe 
> there is a way to get the windows api to a v4l?(I'll go look for one)
>  I think macs and bsd support the v4l api? no?
> 
> In the past I used gyachi to send and receive video on the yahoo
> protocol. It worked but was buggy as can be. I would rather have a
> cross platform implementation. Buggy is good because it shows the
> concept and you can get money for concepts(I'd donate :-)). I use
> multiple OSs I use both windows and linux(much prefered). I haven't
> touched Mac or BSDs in a long while But I really like having
> applications I can use on all platforms and share with everyone.
> Pidgin is by far the best application that meets this qualification
> for an Instant Messanger program. It is the OpenOffice of Instant
> Messengers. Hmm maybe someday Open Office will interface with
> libpurple for office communications.
> 
> On Nov 27, 2007 11:34 PM, dave1g <dave1g at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > hey Carlos, not sure if you knew this but here is the  ticket for what you
> > are planning on working on.  http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/34   from
> > what I can tell both aMSN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMSN and Kopete
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopete have implementations that you could use
> > for inspiration. Both are GPL so should be no worries there. If you announce
> > on that ticket that you are working on this, there will be people worshiping
> > you lol, read the ticket to see what I mean.