Hmmm ... A thinking out of the box Sage plugin question??

[mightyt]

About a year ago I talked a friend of mine at work into trying out Sage. It's a year later and he loves it ... I'm always telling him about its ability to be customized to do different things ...

He works in our Telecom / Network group ... and came up with a "very cool" concept.

Here's his question;

Would it be possible to build a plugin for Sage that would use a PC Camera and allow Video Confrencing on your TV, over the net, through Sage??


Personally I think this is a great idea ... Of course have no clue on what it would take or even if it's possible.

Wonder what all you developer types think? Been thought of already? Possible, but a huge amount of work? Not possible?

Thanks, T.

[Para]

Maybe this will be easier when they roll out place-shifting. I don't know if you would require 2 place-shifting clients and 2 servers or just 2 servers. Just guessing at the possibilities. But it seems that the lower bit rate of place-shifting (via MPEG4) is the most likely avenue. However, I am not sure that even it would be timely enough, since I remember Jeff said that there was a delay of approx 20 seconds IIRC (per the CES video). As he said though, there is a lot of room to improve (since it was just developed). Optimization for the video conferencing might not be the same as for watching a show. Cool Idea

[Wheemer]

Probably easier to make a plugin that interact with a program that already handles this.