All this, with 300 baud modems (_my comment_:))
I really don't think that these people know what they are up against. The CU-delvelopers are probably privately snickering about the above list. Meebe on some future Power PC-type chip running at about 400 Mhz, or some trick special-purpose coprocessor chip, but for now...
If they think that it just needs some cleanup, polish, and a few more features...!
I just don't think users really understand what atomic rocket science it is to develop efficent _and_ fast compression techniques, and then what coding it can be like when you are looking up individual instruction clock cycles in obscure manuals. The CU algorithm is probably a good balance of what the "average" pc or mac can do, audio, network "stack" speed limitations, etc.
Bearing in mind that CU-SeeMe is free and I have no biz commenting on it, the user interface (the Windows version, anyway) is kinda crummy...the reason, of course, is that the developers have probably devoted 90% of their time in the compression, 9% in compatibility with particular PC/MACS, and 1% in the UI.
I had to eat my hat before concerning how well iphone works, but in this case, I think my hat is safe.
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Steve Loboyko
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VSI Solutions, Incorporated
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