Project Draft Video Conferencing in Telepathy

[Mayank Jha]

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The objective is to implement multiple video calls, or  a conference, using
the current TelepathyQt library.

Currently one can have multiple one-on-one audio/video chats, using the
shared desktop library.

The Farstream library in itself provides the conferencing feature, with its
complete API well described. And also the telepathy-farstream wrapper over
this library is well built covering all features. So we would be making use
of the the API, to establish a conference call.
The FsConference object is the main conference object, which would be
handling the FsSessions. Each session would be allocated to a participant.

For the UI, there would be multiple video sink widgets of equal size in the
main window container, and there would be only one audio sink per
participant.

Please suggest any naive errors I made in the above mentioned approach, and
suggest improvements.


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Mayank Jha <mayank25080562 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Everyone, I am Mayank Jha, currently in 3rd year pursuing a Computer
> Science major course and am interested in implementing the video
> conferencing feature in kde telepathy.
>
> The objective is to implement multiple video calls, or  a conference,
> using the current TelepathyQt library.
>
> Currently one can have multiple one-on-one audio/video chats, using the
> shared desktop library. Thus we wont be needing to construct any new
> protocols/functions for making a conference call. We would simply be using
> KTp::Actions::startAudioVideoCall()*, *multiple times connecting each
> person with each other. There will be an extra option,* "*Conference Call
> *"*, to distinguish it from a normal, video/audio call.
>
> The Conference Window, will be similar to the present call-ui window,
> which has a parent class, KXMLGuiWindow, and will be used to stream from
> the various VideoContent Handlers of each individual, who are a part of the
> conference.
>
> Now, to keep it simple, for a conference to start, a host would initiate a
> conference call, by clicking on the Conference Call button, and he would
> add the members from the contact, and as he sends a request to say a person
> A to join in the conference, it would send that person, the details of the
> persons B,C and D, who are already a part of the conference, to connect to,
> and when the connection is complete, person A would then be a part of the
> conference.
>
> **The shortcoming or drawback of the above approach, is that for a set of
> people to have a conference, each person must be having all other as their
> his/her friend.
>
> **The advantage, is that there wont be much load on the host, as each
> person creates new connections with the others.
>
> Please suggest any naive errors I made in the above mentioned approach,
> and suggest improvements.
>
>
>
> --
> Mayank Jha
> http://mjnovice.wordpress.com/
>



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Mayank Jha
http://mjnovice.wordpress.com/
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