[Halld-offline] bluejeans meeting on Friday

[Richard Jones]

Hello Curtis,

Video Systems Used:   e.g. Polycom Unit,  Computer, Tablet, Phone, etc...

   1. Polycom H.323 set-top unit
   2. Chromebook with google video chat

Was it easy to connect?

   1. it worked, but more tedious.  ESnet was instantaneous
   2. it didn't work.  I chatted with the bluejeans corp. helpdesk, and
   they admitted that the google chat feature stopped working several weeks
   back, and they have no current solution for it.

Did you have a device that did not allow you to connect? If so, what was it
and what was the operating system?

   1. Polycom firmware
   2. google chrome / video chat / hangouts


How was the audio quality relative to ESNET?

   1. was ok, seemed worse than ESnet.  ESnet was almost always great, much
   better than phone audio quality.  This seemed more or less equivalent to
   telephone.  All of the usual loopback problems kept happening, but that
   seems to be a common feature of desktop clients.


How was the video quality relative to ESNET?

   1. considerably worse.  ESnet was always great for people with Polycom
   hardware, and often great for desktop video.  This video was quite poor
   (coarse-pixelled slow-updating) and less flexible than ESnet, where one
   could switch screen layouts easily with the remote.

Were you able to participate in the desktop sharing that we tried?

   1. no, it said that the screen resolution was insufficient and would not
   show the slides
   2. no, the bluejeans client would not load in chrome, meeting screen was
   blank.  I called bluejeans support, and they confirmed that the client only
   works on some linux platforms.

If yes, was it useful?

   1. N/A
   2. N/A

If no, please indicate the device and OS you were using.

   1. Polycom H.323
   2. Ubuntu 12.04.4 on ARM processor

-Richard Jones


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Curtis A. Meyer <cmeyer at cmu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Everyone -
>
>     I am just trying to get feedback from people on the bluejeans meeting
> we held on Friday. If you participated
> in the meeting, could you answer the following questions for me:
>
> Video Systems Used:   e.g. Polycom Unit,  Computer, Tablet, Phone, etc...
>
> Was it easy to connect?
>
> Did you have a device that did not allow you to connect? If so, what was
> it and what was the operating system?
>
> How was the audio quality relative to ESNET?
>
> How was the video quality relative to ESNET?
>
> Were you able to participate in the desktop sharing that we tried?
> If yes, was it useful?
> If no, please indicate the device and OS you were using.
>
> Thanks - Curtis
> ---------
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