Bill Campbell

Multi-user Video Conferencing on Skype

April 19, 2006 02:14 PM

Topics: Life | Skype杂志 | Video | conferencing | ebay | skype | skypejournal | voip | webcam

Lots of fun is to be had on wigi these days. A bunch of us have been playing with Ashod’s new 10 party video conferencing system. For me, it doesn't get better than this.

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The latest version ( vwho4100x,exe) can be found here But that can change every few hours.

You need to register to join the foum to download. Takes about 1 minute.

Try it. For each participant my upload bandwidth is 120 kilobits per second and CPU is only about 15%. That is pretty phenomenal performance. The frame rate appears to be around 30 Frames per Second. Try it, you will never use Skype video again. I know you will, but I hope you will tell me and my readers why. Please leave us a comment.

It is easy to use. Forward port UDP port 43690.

Each participant enters your IP Address in the lower left entry field like this:

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Remember you use Skype for audio and VWHO (Wigi) for video.

Enjoy...

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Posted by: Fastjack at April 19, 2006 2:35 PM

Yep, it really worked amazingly well today. Much better than I would have expected. For the most part the videos had a very high framerate and good quality. Especially the high framerate makes the video much more livelike than Skype-Video.

Now let's hope that the integration of audio goes well, too.

Posted by: MuppetMaster at April 19, 2006 9:55 PM

And this analysis from the same blogger who made the comment that the 10-way conf call could only be on Intel Duos as it took to much CPU otherwise...

Posted by: Anon. at April 19, 2006 9:59 PM


*** Very cool ***

Posted by: expat it at April 19, 2006 11:54 PM

monkeys wigi too?

Posted by: Ricardo at April 20, 2006 12:25 PM

will skype use wigi as the video thing? I sure hope so. It really is a delight!

Posted by: Willem5201 at April 20, 2006 12:39 PM

Wigi also called now vWho IS a delight.
Take care, you can be addicted as well.

Seems, Skype staff is addicted to Mogadon?
Hope they will do something good rhis time
and overhaul their complete video module.
It's a hogg in many suspects.

Go on Wigi!

Posted by: Kent Kumpula at April 20, 2006 12:40 PM

Wigi sure beats Skype for video quality...

But not at "easy to use" (yet). It needs to mature and to get a REAL GUI, with a contact list and all. There are so many different versions of wigi and wigimultichat and desktop sharing and all...

I really hope it will be finished one day, or that Skype will dump the crappo video thing they have going on now and buy Wigi-codecs for their videoconferencing.

Posted by: bengtisa at April 20, 2006 12:43 PM

I agree with Fastjack and Bill Campbell - vwho (Wigi) is the far best I have seen.

I had excellent frame rate (28+ fps) and its fast and stable. Very good video quality also.

Posted by: Bill Campbell at April 20, 2006 12:45 PM

Hey Muppet!

Welcome back to SJ. Read first; then comment.

Or preface your comment with, "Gee, I didn't have time to read your post Mr Campbell, but here are my comments.." That way my readers will not get confussed by your valuable contributions.

A ten participant conference call (voice)requires a Dual Core Processor. A ten participant wigi video-only conference does not.

So there, I have said it again, "a ten person Skype Conference call requires a dual-core processor.

Grin. See you back here again soon... Bill

Posted by: Nicolas at April 22, 2006 8:18 AM

Very good software.
Stable, fast, easy to use and it's only the LITE version !

Version PRO with audio and better picture quality will be an incredible software !

Posted by: bsreddy at July 19, 2006 9:59 AM

i amusing skype for a long period it is good but some times i want to connect multiusers so i need to install multi user software

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