Bill Campbell

Multi-Party Video Conferencing...

April 9, 2005 11:22 AM

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I got lucky. I tested the new SkypeSee multi-party video conferencing beta this morning. At times we had eight parties in the test session. Four of us were talking on Skype. Pic size was 8 cm by 11 cm. CPU utiliztion was 44 percent.

Beta? Well that is what Adsod, the developer in Austraila, called it. Alpha would have been a more appropriate term. :) :)

About 50 percent of our time was spent with quite good quality. Two of the participants thought this was better than Sight-Speed testing they had carried out.

Participants were world-wide: Iceland, Sweden, US, Austraila, Canada.

There seems to be a real deep hunger for video in Skypeland.

Here is a screen shot: multi.png




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Comments

Posted by: Leonardo Faoro at April 9, 2005 12:44 PM

Absoutely. Video is going to be the next "black". Still, the webcams have to improve some. I own a creative one and it is a pain to configure, since it is handled as a TWAIN device...

I'd love to use Skype with native video. Having to run another application in addition to what I already have running is not a good idea...

Leo

Posted by: JP at April 10, 2005 5:56 PM

I am just curious, no one was using headphones to talk? :)

Posted by: Bill Campbell at April 10, 2005 7:04 PM

Hey JP!

Very observant.

Acually, in this beta release audio did not work. Some of us were on Skype Multi Chat. Later we were in a Skype Conference Call.

Thanks for your participation.

Regards, Bill

Posted by: Rocketman at April 11, 2005 5:05 PM

Well Bill you must have struck lucky because I have not had a clear picture since multi-party video conferencing came out for testing. My picture keeps locking up after about 1 minutes and it is almost impossible to see that it is me most of the time. I think this part of the program has gone backwards not forwards, considering when it was just 1 on 1 video I was receiving and sending an almost perfect picture every time.
I know Ashod still has a long way to go yet but I think he should have consentrated on getting 1 on 1 audio/video right first before thinking about multi video.

Posted by: vlad at September 29, 2005 1:04 PM

cool

Posted by: charaff at December 15, 2005 5:09 PM

salut ca va moi jet attan

Posted by: Robert Yih at June 12, 2006 4:23 AM

Hi,

It's been over a year when this first appeared. Anybody knows what's the latest?

Robert

Posted by: gress at July 20, 2006 8:21 PM

Dear all,
What can I do to make me can see more than 2 people in my computer in converence.
What is the software and hardware name?

Thank you
Bonagres

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