web conferencing in labview?

[janet637]

I'm trying to develop a program that will allow audio/video feed to be displayed to a user over the internet. The user will be able to control that VI and see the video stream and hear the audio (that's why I was considering remote front panel), but then the client user should also be able to verbally communicate w/ the host user. Is all this possible via LabVIEW? If remote front panel won't work with that, I've tried WinXP's REmote Desktop, but it REALLY LAGS the video! ANy help will be appreciated! Will implementing this on LAbVIEW RT help?

[Jeremy Braden]

LabVIEW RT is not going to help. It is essentially a headless deterministic computer.

LabVIEW can easily transmit data across the net but I do not know if you will get the throughput you want especially if remote desktop is considered slow. You will have to experiment to see if LV's performance is satisfactory.

There are various commerical products for web conferencing products. They have been optimised for doing this sort of thing. Some have activex interfaces so that you can have programatic control of the software from LabVIEW. This is the route I would take if performace is a strong issue.