Cross Platform Video Conferencing Software? 17
soyle asks: "Most of my family recently aquired webcams, but we all run different operating systems (Mac OS 9, Linux and Windows 98). Searching through the web for software that supports most of the above yielded pretty much nothing at all. I contacted one vendor who provides a free-beer version of a MacOS/Windows solution, but the person I spoke to said they they thought a linux port would require too much effort. However, if anyone had a basic skeleton for an application providing basic video/sound in/out, they'd be willing to work with the developers in order to plug in their own transport-code and develop a useable application. So my question is really twofold: Does anyone know of an existing video conferencing application that supports all three major desktop platforms? Does anyone know of an application whose developers would be willing to work with said company?"
H.323 (Score:5, Informative)
You might want to look at H.323 - http://www.openh323.org/ [openh323.org]. It's got support for Linux, plus H.323 is used by NetMeeting on Win32, now all you need is a Mac client. Also look at http://www.packetizer.com/h323link.html [packetizer.com]. You may even be able to do a porting from the openh323 linux code to OSX?? (not sure on this one)
Re:H.323 (Score:2, Informative)
PS. I have not actually tested the conferencing part yet -- that would be done tonight.
free(beer) cross-platform videoconferencing tools (Score:5, Informative)
QuickTime will play these back (Score:2)
VIC (Score:1)
I used to use VIC [ucl.ac.uk] at work for simple "are you in" multicast office monitoring using webcams, we just turned the bandwidth and frame rate controls down low and put the cameras somewhere so you could see people where in but not what they were doing :)
It worked great for us, you can have several streams in view at once, then click on one for a larger picture. It is only a video tool, so needs to be used in conjunction with something else for audio needs.
The whole thing worked great with creative USB web cams and ran on windows and linux machines just fine. I expect a MacOS X port wouldn't be to hard, plus it uses the standard communication protocols so I should hook up with other packages just fine.
Check out Speak Freely !! (Score:3, Informative)
It has a lot of cool features, such as an enhanced answering machine, ICQ interoperability and it supports about a dozen compression algorithms, including GSM and 128-bit Blowfish.
SF is a very fine product, and it's available on Windows and Unix [fourmilab.ch]
It's very cool because it's licensed under the GPL, it's source code is available. And it has a cool name
CU-SeeMe? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:CU-SeeMe? (Score:1)
Dirk
unix reflector, quicktime rumors (Score:2)
supposedly Apple was also going to release another Quicktime Conferencing system based on Mpeg4 once the whole MPEGLA thing is settled...
CU30 can do windows and linux. full frame rate too (Score:4, Informative)
Features-
30 frames per second
full size frames
doable on dsl and moderate hardware
software exists on windows and linux
linux has a gpl'd version
Cu30.sourceforge [sourceforge.net]
Qvix Tech. [qvixtechnologies.com]
GnomeMeeting works fine with Netmeeting (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.gnomemeeting.org/
From http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnomemeeting/ :
"GnomeMeeting is an H.323 Video Conferencing application which uses the H.323 protocol. It can connect to a variety of other H323 applications including Microsoft NetMeeting. It also supports ILS servers. GnomeMeeting can work with or without a webcam, and is able to create pure audio communications or traditionnal audio+video communications."
What is this, HotJobs? (Score:1)
First advertising, now competing with Monster.com