What is GiNM?
GiNM means GiNM is Not a Messenger.
The software has this name because the principal focus of it is the Instant Imaging.
Instant Imaging is the same concept of Instant Messaging, but with images!
GiNM is a Jabber client for Linux and has many features as any
instant messaging client: contact list, presence control, exchange of messages, blocking
users, etc.
Why Jabber?
Because
this network is known as the Linux of Instant Messaging[1]. It is a
protocol 100% open source and has a very good documentation.
Furthermore, Jabber has the protocol Socks5 ByteStream[2] which
describes a mean of sending files through a proxy, avoiding problems
with firewalls. This approach is very important when the focus of the
software is the end-user who can be in a college or company that has a
firewall, so the file transfers will be blocked.
Because I don't understand anything about
V4L (Video 4 Linux) and the CamStream[3] is a very good software
that has several features already implemented and I will not remake the
wheel.
What Can I do with GiNM?
You
can do everything that involves images! Several use cases can be
created. For instance, you can monitor your house, car or your baby
using the Timer of GiNM and send these pictures everywhere you are!
You can take pictures of a medical/biological experiment and keep
totally control of it. You can exchange pictures of everything in the
vision field of the webcam and TV Capture Cards with anyone who uses
GiNM.
Webcam Driver
The
installation of Webcam will depend on the model. GiNM was tested in the
Slackware 10.1 and Suse 10.1 with the driver spcaxx[4]. My models are
LG WebPro and Genius V4, both working with this driver.
Who did it?
Me!
My name is Gabriel Menezes Nunes and I'm a science computer student from Brazil. I did this project because I would like to train network programming
and QT. Also, I wanted to make more interesting things with my
webcam.
[1] www.jabber.org
[2] http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0065.html
[3] http://www.smcc.demon.nl/camstream/
[4] http://mxhaard.free.fr/
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