10-04-2017, 08:22 PM
Introduction
JavaGroupsVC is an open source program designed to provide a multi-platform video conferencing solution. The motivation behind this project comes from the lack of platform independent solution for videoconference. Proprietary hardware and platform specific video formats requires video conferencing application to be tailored and rewritten for each computing platform.
The emergence of Java technology provides tools to create platform independent applications. However, it is the general belief among technologists is that Java technology is not suitable for computational intensive tasks, such as encoding and decoding video or audio, which are required in a video conferencing application. The ultimate goal of this project is to explore the feasibility of creating video conferencing application using Java s latest multimedia technology, Java Media Framework, over JavaGroups, a Java-based reliable group communication toolkit developed at Cornell University.