Tokbox Update

I decided to have another play with this today, and it's started working. I think there may have been something up with the release of flash I was using as other sites using similar tech didn't work either.

First impressions: Tokbox is a very interesting idea with a lot of potential. I especially like the video mail feature, could be very useful. My only gripe is that there is a lag in the audio syncing to the video, but it's not an app-killer. More on this as I play.

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And it starts badly for TokBox

I've set up my account to start testing TokBox, but my immediate impressions aren't good. The site and product looks good. Lots of good ideas on there and it was easy to sign up. My complaint is that I can't seem to record sound. The webcam works, and the settings are pointed at the right mic, but no sound on the recorded videos. I know the mic is set up properly as it works fine on both Skype and the video recording program that came with it.

Guess I'll have to have a play and see what happens, but not a very impressive start.

Kit

I think everything is pretty much sorted with the TOR and schedule. A little tweaking left, but not much.

The client has provided me with the equipment that I've asked for - 2 webcams and a computer to use as a test server. I should be able to get the computer driven back to my house from the uni this week, so I can start testing the various 'self-hosted' solutions that I've been looking at. I've already started looking at hosted services (things like Skype and Tokbox) that won't be any part of my final solution, but are relevant to my research.

Finally I feel like things are moving...

Tor and Scheduling

OK, I've re-done my TOR and my scheduling, as per the instructions from the module lecturer, so hopefully that's that more or less done with. I still need to go into the next project surgury for my group to run it all by him again.

Now that that's out of the way I should hopefully be able to press on with my research and testing and make up some of the delay that I've incurred in the last couple of weeks. I've arranged with my client to collect a test server machine and a couple of webcams later on this week. I should also (hopefully) be picking up the sponsorship letter that the uni is asking for.

Behind Schedule

It's been a rather hectic couple of weeks in my non-computing life (yes, it does happen...) so the project is running a little behind schedule.

The review did not go desperately well. Despite having done what I was told to do with my TOR and scheduling the marking lecturer felt that there was some gaps, so I need to review both of these pieces of work and then start putting some serious time into my research and testing.

References and Reasearch Materials

A link to this has been created on the project web page.

As I have stated there, if any of the authors/owners of the papers being hosted have a problem with this they should contact me and the content will immediately be removed. All of the material that I'm hosting was freely available to me so I'm assuming there should be no problem with me gathering it together into one convenient place.

Research and Scheduling

The project is starting off slowly, as these things always seem to. I've just about got the terms of reference finished, although I need to find a few more references to include. I also need to finish off the scheduling. I'm starting to get the hang of MS Project, I just need a little more practice. I also started looking at the research papers that I've collected, starting with a paper called Video Conferencing Best Practices. I'll put this and any other papers I include in my research in a directory on the main website, probably later today.

First review is tomorrow, so fingers crossed that'll go well, although I'm not entirely sure how much I'm supposed to have produced for it. Guess I'll find out tomorrow.