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On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Brown Richard wrote: > Hi Guys > > Does anybody know of an open source conferencing solution for Linux > please? Thanks Video conferencing is something thats hugely bandwidth intensive for the conference host. Think of 128Kbps to 192Kbps for basic, small video streams per client device. A client of mine in Bristol has a 10Mb leased line just for doing this very thing, but they're commercial and polycom dealers and I'm sure paying megabucks for a polycom unit isn't what you're after ;-) One to one video phones is possible - I've installed a few - mostly for family use though, so grandparents can see grandchild and so on... But you can use Skype for that rather than the video phones I'm using. (Grandstream) Digging through the asterisk users mailling list archives find these: http://www.agora-2000.com/pdfs/Isabel-4.10_Introduction.pdf http://videoconferencia.reuna.cl/wiki/index.php/Isabel not free though. I never did get on with Ekiga though, OSS it might be, but I much prefer some of the other free, but non OS soft-phones out there. XLite is OK for video though, but doesn't have conference facilities. Ekiga is just ugly and clunky by comparison - I've not managed to get it to work on my AAO - of-course the licensing imposed by the video codecs that the rest of the world use make them incompatable with Ekiga without resorting to behind the scenes codec importing - I gave up on it at that point and stuck to XLite. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html