How hard is it to program a video chat?

Margaret3000 · 2004-09-27, 21:27

Just wondering.
How hard would it be to program a peer to peer video chat?

PrimeCruncher · 2004-09-27, 21:43

Probably fairly difficult. First you'd have to interface with the camera, then capture frames, then compress and send them. The audio would be the same. I've seen API libraries that automate most of this stuff but they cost an arm and a leg.

marc · 2004-09-28, 00:01

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim-vv/

This project is using totally free (beer/speech) API libraries from the bottom up. If you wanna know how difficult it'd be download the source and read through it.

2004-09-27, 21:27	#1
Margaret3000 Sep 2004 5 Posts	How hard is it to program a video chat? Just wondering. How hard would it be to program a peer to peer video chat?

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2004-09-27, 21:43	#2
PrimeCruncher Sep 2003 Borg HQ, Delta Quadrant 2·3³·13 Posts	Probably fairly difficult. First you'd have to interface with the camera, then capture frames, then compress and send them. The audio would be the same. I've seen API libraries that automate most of this stuff but they cost an arm and a leg.

2004-09-28, 00:01	#3
marc Jun 2004 UK 139 Posts	http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim-vv/ This project is using totally free (beer/speech) API libraries from the bottom up. If you wanna know how difficult it'd be download the source and read through it.