We used Communique! in the 2G1309 Telecom Systems Design Seminar (TSDS) course during fall 1996.
Communique!
is a product from InSoft which
was bought by Netscape and now all
InSoft products, including Communiqué!, INTV!, and OpenDVE, for all
platforms, will be distributed and supported by
MDL Corporation.
A conclusion of the above is that the support situation right now isn't
optimal.
The MDL Communique!supports uncompressed L8 audio and a proprietary audio compression algorithm called Insoft1. Audio and video can be synchronized and both a rudimentary software echo cancellation and silence suppression is available. The documentation mentions support for IP multicast transport, but we haven't been able to make it work during the testing. Video codecs supported are CellB, JPEG, DVE2, Indeo and H.261. Which codecs one really can use differs somewhat depending on machine, operating system and audio-video hardware.
Maintained by Tobias Öbrink