Efika 5200B Project Use of EFIKA PowerPC Boards and SUN Fire T1000 Server in a Cooperative Project for Higher Education in Vaasa-Finland in category Other proposed by Johan Dams on 2nd December 2006 (accepted on 2nd December 2006) [View Full Project]

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	Video Conferencing posted by Johan Dams on 12th January 2008 Using the EFIKA as a videoconferencing client sounds like a good idea - a low power client on a desktop to provide audio and video communication. Combined with Noël's project: http://projects.powerdeveloper.org/project/efika/337 and its spin-off http://portable.powerdeveloper.org/ this makes for a great demonstration of what the EFIKA and the 5200B are capable of, and of what the 5121e will do even better. With that in mind, here is the first screen shot of EFIKA showing a stream from a USB camera: . The quality of the video is bad because of the bad lighting in my room - so don't mind that. What should be apparent is the relatively low cpu overhead while streaming at an average of 20fps. The next steps will be: Try to use a UVC camera (Creative Optia Live Cam) instead of the Microsoft VX1000 camera with the spca driver. This should give superior quality video, without increasing the cpu and memory requirements. Stream the video over the Internet, maybe using software such as Ekiga or Vic, or something else etc. Will keep you posted, Johan