A partnership between Savoir-Faire Linux and the Polytechnic school of Montreal will begin in January 2008.
A partnership between Savoir-Faire Linux and *the Polytechnic school* of Montreal will begin in January 2008.
Five students from Polytechnic school will be working part-time on the project for four months.
Five students from Polytechnic school will be working part-time on the project for a period of four months.
Goals
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- The technical goal of this partnership is to implement a video layer in SFLphone to allow video calls and video conferencing. It is an interesting challenge because videoconference is not much implemented in softphones yet. The first step consists in implementing peer-to-peer video calls.
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- The technical goal of this partnership is to implement a video layer in SFLphone to allow *video calls* and *video conferencing*. It is an interesting challenge because videoconference is not much implemented in softphones yet. The first step consists in implementing peer-to-peer video calls.
- This is how the application should behave on a client side:
* The user opens a multimedia session with an other client (SIP protocol)
* Local video capture (video4linux2 driver) is compressed and shipped through RTP packets.
