KVIrc DCC video?

It appears that DCC video is unfinished. Can it be finished?

This is for a friend who's looking for a video call software that works between windows and gnu.

Oct 13 '16 21:10 SoniEx2

Yes, it can be finished.

Oct 13 '16 22:10 wodim

Uh. Well what's missing?

Oct 13 '16 22:10 SoniEx2

I don't remember. I think it worked well but it was Linux only (v4l2) or something like that.

Oct 13 '16 22:10 wodim

Anyway, being honest: DCC VIDEO is rubbish; it's some experiment that was done, credit where credit is due, but sending video over the internet is very complicated to get right, and if you're serious about needing this, I suggest you try Skype or something similar.

Oct 13 '16 22:10 wodim

You want something that uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC probably

Oct 14 '16 01:10 Stanzilla

They said they couldn't get WebRTC to work reliably. Same for skype. Same for jitsi. Same for hangouts. [And so on....]

Oct 14 '16 09:10 SoniEx2

Millions of people use those technologies every day. I'd say pebcak

Oct 14 '16 09:10 wodim

Can we get working DCC video yet? Now I want it for personal reasons (promoting DCC) rather than to help someone.

Oct 14 '16 09:10 SoniEx2

Compile KVIrc on Linux with video support. I'm pretty sure it works.

Oct 14 '16 10:10 wodim

When i wrote the DCC video code Qt had no facility to access webcams yet, so the only implemented backend was based on v4l2 and working only under linux. Still now, Qt doesn't support video capture on Windows (source: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtmultimedia-windows.html)

Oct 14 '16 11:10 ctrlaltca

https://github.com/kvirc/KVIrc/pull/2628 ports dcc video to qt6, now OSes other than linux are supported. Still, no way it's going to be enabled by default or publicized as a working video chat solution.

Apr 01 '24 08:04 ctrlaltca