![]() ![]() The team has worked extremely hard over the past four months under the leadership of Eric Richie, and we are extremely happy to finally be able to tell you what we’ve been up to.įirst up, a large number of changes to the Adium build system are in order. This is a herculean effort, as it requires the cooperation of several people from both Adium and Pidgin to accomplish, as well as the use of several new external libraries to facilitate a variety of tasks. A lot of you have been asking about audio and video chat for a while, and have been really frustrated by our response of “It’s coming.” We’ve been hard at work trying to make this a reality, and today we’re excited to give you an update on our progress, and to show you where things will be heading in the future.Īround the end of July, a team was put together to begin working on integrating audio and video chat into Adium. Well everyone, we’ve got some great news. Posted in Leopard, QTKit Capture, QuickTime, VoiceAndVideo | 29 Comments » Also don’t forget, if you think you might be able to help, certainly get in touch with us, we’d definitely appreciate it! We really appreciate all the support that you guys are giving us. We’re excited about the work we’re doing and the progress we’re making and thought that you guys would be as well. The reason we chose to bring everything out in the open now is because we were using some Leopard specific features and thus bound by the NDA to keep it from the public. It would be foolish of me to give a firm deadline because there’s no way to know. I know there are doubters because everyone has heard it before, but it is DEFINITELY becoming a reality. The progress made so far has truly been awesome. We simply wanted to let everyone know that yes, we really are working on it and we have made a LOT of progress. ![]() It will most likely still be several months until everything works properly and lives up to our own high standards. Once we have that working we’d like to put out an alpha to get some more people testing the new code as we continue to progress with the rest. The screenshots you saw showing a picture were real, it was simply the UI itself (the input selectors and levels) that was photoshopped to show what we’re thinking about right now.Īudio chat for GTalk will probably be the first working feature. Those are making significant progress and are getting close to being where we need them to be to move on. The majority of the work right now is going into the back-end technologies that will provide the support for everything else. What is the current state?/Can I run this right now? No, it’s not functional yet. There are some individuals out there that are working on their own plugins to at least allow you some text capabilities with Skype but they are not affiliated with our development team and we wish them the best. There has been a lot of discussion about this in the open source community and the lawyers involved have all recommended staying far far away from it. This doesn’t even take into account that there are also some VERY serious legal issues in regards to this. If it were an easy thing to break, other apps would have supported it long ago. What about support for Skype? Unfortunately this is something we are completely unable to do at this point in time. As we mentioned in the last post, Farsight has plugins for MSN and Yahoo! that may greatly ease our support of those two (although we haven’t gotten to that point just yet.) That being said, our primary goal is to provide the same support as iChat since those protocols seem like they may require the most work. What protocols will be supported? Our goal is to support all major protocols, including but not limited to, AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, XMPP (GTalk/Jabber). Considering that Sequence Grabber isn’t long for this world (all the old QuickTime APIs are deprecated), we decided to focus entirely on QTKit Capture. To support VV on Tiger, we would have to implement capture twice: once using QTKit Capture, then again using the older, uglier Sequence Grabber. That API is new in Leopard it never existed before. Peter adds: Specifically, we’re using the QTKit Capture API. There was simply no choice, it had to be done for the sake of doing what was best for the project. As nice as it would be, it would have done nothing more than to draw this project out twice as long and frustrate ourselves as well as our users. ![]() I wanted to include Tiger if possible, but the more we looked into it, Elliott made it clear that this would not be a realistic goal. Will it run on Tiger? As previously stated, it will be Leopard only. With all the seemingly unanswered questions from the last post, I thought it would be prudent to follow up more than just in the comment thread. You are currently browsing the archives for the Leopard category. ![]()
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