Megaconference

[George Wiley <>]

Hi Mark,

 

As others have reported, camera issues and I also believe Microphone issues are the main issues. Using Cisco Jabber, LifeSize ClearSea, and Vidyo I have has success in connecting a Sony pan, tilt, zoom camera and audio-technica mic via USB connections

 

George Wiley

 

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From: [mailto:] On Behalf Of Leonard, Mark
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 2:16 PM
To:
Subject: [Megacon] Videoconferencing "Soft Client" vs Codec Hardware

 

Hello Megalister's--

 

I'm curious if anyone out there has run a side by side comparison of say a Cisco C-20 against a 'soft client' like this--

• Mac mini 2.6Ghz Intel Core i7
• Cisco Jabber (enterprise version- MOVI)
• USB Camera with pocessing within the camera
• Pretty capable USB speaker phone

Sure…in a perfect world we would always buy the dedicated codec for video collaboration-- right?   —  but I'm really starting to wonder about reasons not to run  the $1000 set up above in non mission critical events—

 

How about it?

Anyone out there running a H.323 soft client  in a classroom set up? 

 

And yes— to make it a little tougher… I must have 30fps, 1080, and connection speeds around 1000kbs  :>)

 

And no— I'm not so interested in the 101 web based videoconferencing services that have popped up as this is really a 'hardware' discussion. In my eyes— the weakest link in the soft client is the camera. Buying a $3K+ USB camera to compete with the Cisco HD camera kind of defeats the purpose of looking at workarounds to a dedicated VC codec.

 

Thanks for looking at this-

Have a great long weekend-

 

~Mark

 

Mark Leonard

Media and Collaboration, UNH IT