{"id":575,"date":"2007-06-21T02:34:47","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T07:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/21\/multiple-parties-video-conferencing-with-skype-and-global-ip-video"},"modified":"2009-09-08T22:37:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T03:37:20","slug":"multiple-parties-video-conferencing-with-skype-and-global-ip-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/21\/multiple-parties-video-conferencing-with-skype-and-global-ip-video","title":{"rendered":"Multiple parties video-conferencing with Skype and Global IP Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, my friends and I decided we’d like to participate in a video-conference. At this point, I was the only stumbling block – the Luddite on Linux, with Skype 1.4 Beta, and no webcam. I proceeded to move to my Mac OS X powered laptop, that are all now coming with built-in iSight’s (and thinking back, I’ve been Intel-Mac for a little over a year now<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Shiny happy people, video-conferencing<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Guess what? Skype does not do multi-party video-conferencing. Sure, you can do multi-party voice chats (these work on Linux too, obviously), but they only do one-on-one video conferencing. This is where Global IP Video comes to the rescue… In a nutshell, its a Flash-based application that harnesses your webcam and allows multiple parties to video conference. From what I gather, it doesn’t do voice – for that you still need Skype.<\/p>\n

Everyone else had no problem working it, except me (as always, the non-Windows running person). To make Global IP Video work with the iSight, you need to right-click<\/strong> the Flash application, click Settings<\/strong>, then go to the 4th tab, which has a graphic that represents a webcam<\/strong>. Choose the appropriate Camera – for the built-in iSight its USB Video Class Video<\/strong>. Close the tab, and like magic, you’ve got a working webcam now!<\/p>\n

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\nThe correct Camera allows everyone to video-conference<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Bandwidth usage for both video and voice seemed to taper around 20-30KB\/s, so you have a pretty clear picture that video is taking about 15-25KB\/s. Everyone was on a DSL (or Cable) connection of some sorts, and this spanned countries far and wide. No real delay in the video, so we were all pretty impressed.<\/p>\n

Update (09\/09\/2009):<\/b> Removed the link to Global IP Video because the service is no longer available.<\/p>\n

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