gnomemeeting kills gnome2 build

[Roger Hardiman]

Hi there

> Damien has stated that GnomeMeeting will move away from OpenH323 in
> the near future. (And this could REALLY break things down the road
> unless we can get a viable video framework in place for FreeBSD as I
> am sure it will be closely tied to the Linux video stuff which I don't
> believe FreeBSD will use. Guess I need to check in on the work in this
> area.)

Dont panic.
Gnomemeeting will switch from OpenH323 to OPAL, which is by the same authors
OPAL is a better library for H.323 with SIP support as well. And as both
OpenH323
and OPAL use the pwlib library (which is where the video capture takes
place), then
future versions of GnomeMeeting will contine to work on FreeBSD.

> I do have quicky hack for pwlib (video4bsd) to fix the problem of it
> eating all CPU time in a tight loop when GnomeMeeting is sending
> unchanging video from a camera, but I really need to clean it up
> before submitting it. It does not work nearly as well as it should,
> but it makes things bearable.

I'd forgotten about that.



> GnomeMeeting is a very nice tool, but the port to BSD (Free or
> otherwise) is a bit messy and keeping it in a functional state in
> FreeBSD concerns me a bit. Wish I had a bit more time to spend on it.

There should not be anything too messy about it, except that I was too lazy
to do
a make install target for pwlib and openh323.

Roger