On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 11:09:34AM +0100, Don Alexander wrote:
Jasmine Strong wrote:
On 7 Aug 2008, at 00:00, Deli Geng (David) wrote:
Sorry for hijacking this thread. I just wonder if there is any chance to convert the E3 into a video conference station? If so, what software do I need to install on E3?
Sadly the E3's a bit underpowered for that kind of thing. You could try Ekiga but it'll be really slow.
Does make one wonder the original purpose of selling the E3 as a video phone. Surely if it was good enough to send video over phone lines it must have enough juice to do (albeit slow) video over internet? Would be interesting to see what could be achieved.
The DSP half of the OMAP is used for the codec stuff I believe. Assuming you can write the appropriate DSP code I can't see why it shouldn't be capable of acting as an IP video phone.
Of course we still haven't got full duplex sound working with the handset, which is a major stumbling block. I'd meant to play with the evilness of talking to it over the modem chip some more; I'd had success with half duplex and wondered if upping the baud rate might allow full duplex.
Speaking of getting sidetracked, has anyone thought of porting any of the Open Embedded stuff over to the E3. Could spur on some much needed development in this area methinks.
On my todo list (which never gets any smaller) I have looking at updating to recent u-boot; checking latest kernels compile and updating to the latest OpenEmbedded (probably using EABI). Or maybe Emdebian, but I think it's a bit big to install to the internal flash still.
J.