i'm so sorry for bothering any body but if this subject concern you or you interested in help please do. we are students in the faculty of engineering (communication and electroniscs dep.)in the last year and we are doing now our final project it is about video conferencing over a LAN and we ant to help us in this certain subjects 1. any refrences such as books (name the book and author) , technical our tutorial sites , if you have any magazines not commercial one 2.what are the future trends and the present projects done with students nowdays 3.what is the best programming language to use (interface with desktop /interface with audio and video cards and cameras) 4.prices of of interface network cards ,cameras(what best fit parallel port or TV tuner). 5.what is the best compression used in audio and video (please give us tutorial or book) 6.what is the protocols used over a LAN to adopt video and video 7.if there is any demos or shareware products please tell us if there is anyhting i forget or you want to help us in this project please inform us and please don't hesitate in helping us we are really confused and don't know from where to start thanks very much for reading this please reply as soon as possible goodbye