Hello,

Using the Flash Player, someone can immediately and easily deliver many kinds of rich interactive experiences for the users. As I understand, the goals of the Zap project are different, striving for an universal open-source solution based on Mozilla platform and open standards, the goals which have value, especially in the long run. Flash Player has many great features the Zap and Mozilla platform in general could eventually have.

Thanks for your remark,
Predrag

jean-michel fan_de_teamspeak wrote:

i think it is better to use flash player it is easy and it works very well
http://wengovisio.com
http://osflash.org/red5

2007/5/1, Predrag Radovic <predrg@gmail.com>:
Hello everybody,

I'm thinking about implementing video support for zap if the bounty is still open. I see that the specification for this bounty is not posted on the web page, but even without the specification I think I could estimate the form and contents of the video support implementation. Anyway, the specification, any direction or suggestion will help...

Initially Theora codec (http://theora.org/) could be used. From what I read, the license of the official Theora codec implementation should be compatible with the Mozilla triple license MPL/GPL/LGPL and probably free from any patent issues. I hope I'm not wrong about these legalities.

The implementation will have to obtain video input from USB webcams, DV cams, ... This part is platform specific, and although there is portvideo library (http://sourceforge.net/projects/portvideo/), which is sort of video I/O equivalent of portaudio library, it's licensed under GPL so we can't use it. I could reimplement some of its functionality and part of its cross platform support capabilility, at least for the start.

I'm open to suggestions and remarks.

Predrag

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