[TriLUG] iChat to GnomeMeeting (or simialer)

[Bill Vinson]

David,

The video conferencing portion of uses SIP for signaling, H.263 for 
video, and PureVoice QCELP (Quicktime Audio Codec) for sound.  
GnomeMeeting uses H.323 (same as Microsoft's NetMeeting).  
Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to interact.  Based on my 
limited understanding of this, H.323 has historically had problems or 
difficulties with NAT.  I believe iChat shares some features in common 
with VOIP (SIP is what I am thinking of here) and is designed to work 
even if NAT is used.  This is why I think Apple may have gone a 
different route.  I could be wrong on some (or all) of this, but I 
think that is the situation...

Sorry I couldn't be of more help,
Bill


On Jan 28, 2004, at 10:43 AM, David A. Cafaro wrote:

> I have a friend on a Mac with an iSight camera and iChat, I'm on a 
> Linux
> computer with a webcam, mic and GnomeMeeting.  Anyone ever heard of or
> tried to get the two to talk and work together.  Any clues would be
> appreciated.  I'm doing the google search, but no strong leads yet.
> Thanks.
>
> -David