How about delivering high-quality video and audio between the Microsoft Real Time Communication platform and other standards-based video conferencing solutions?

Have you noticed in all the futuristic TV shows, movies nearly everyone is communicating via phone call or video call? Well, audio and video conferencing technology is catching up and catching on. Fast.

I usually get shouted down when I mention drastically reducing  travel budgets and doing more audio and video conferencing for meetings, events and tradeshows. The ones doing the shouting have more wrinkles and gray hair than me.

Microsoft released a codec porting kit for some established technologies that are remarkably easy to license.

The RTAudio codec is designed for both high quality wideband and narrowband voice over IP (VoIP) applications, including applications such as, games, audio conferencing, and wireless applications over IP. The RTVideo codec provides high quality, efficient, robust real-time video communication over IP networks. Check them out here.

For more technologies that are also remarkably easy to license, visit the Microsoft site at www.microsoft.com/iplicensing