Re: [Linphone-developers] [sr #105016] Wish: video call support

[strk]

My 2cents.

I don't know much about video codecs, but I'd rather avoid
using one instead of another... I think linphone should try
at being compatible with most other videoconferencing tools
available, thus adding, not replacing codecs.

--strk;

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 02:05:59AM +0800, Mike Lee wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>    After looking in the codes, there should be mpeg4 streaming. Why
> not use mpeg4 instead of H263?
>    AFAIK, compression power of Mpeg4 should be between H263 and H263+.
>  I don't know whether they are the same with what you mention. Does
> H263+ equal to H263-1998? or a new one?
> 
> Mike,Lee
> 
> On 1/12/06, Simon Morlat <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Out of curiosity: any plan to include support for H261 as well ?
> > > Not that i know anything about it, but kphone uses both H261 and H263...
> >
> > Well, H261 is a prior version of H263, designed for very low bandwidth
> > communications. I don't think it is valuable to spend time on this.
> >
> > There exists three versions of H263: H263, H263-1998 and H263-2000.
> > Linphone only supports H263-1998. Normally H263 is supposed to be outdated 
> > and
> > new implementations should implement it only for backward compatibility. But
> > I don' t know what the existing implementation over the world are currently
> > supporting. There seems to be still many ones using H263. So maybe I'll need
> > to add H263 support, depending on the users feedback.
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > >
> > > --strk;
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