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Considering that Google Hangouts is perhaps the best video conferencing tool I've tried, it's not odd for me at all.
by dvirsky 11y ago
Considering that Google Hangouts is perhaps the best video conferencing tool I've tried, it's not odd for me at all.
- IanCal 11y agoMy "dream" VC tool is basically just a stable version of google hangouts.
- dsl 11y agoHangouts Video is whitelabeled from Vidyo with some weird bolt ons to make it Googley. You could try going to them directly.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoSigh. We used to make a really good tool, but it was all proprietary. It supported up to 20 participants with full-duplex audio and multiple doc sharing. But it was part of a full product for collaborative teams, and we couldn't figure out the sales process fast enough. It scaled well - hundreds of different conference participants per server node; media nodes that supported hundreds of simultaneous streams. Stream switching was on the order of scores of milliseconds (not seconds like all the webrtc stuff).
- dvirsky 11y agodid it work inside the browser? as a Linux user, that's a big plus, not having to be stuck with some lame version like in Skype's case, or not have any working version at all.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoNo, that's the kiss of death for performant conferencing. At least at the levels we were reaching for. And we only had a headless version of the media engine on Linux, which was used for 'bot testing and for the media node (MCU in webrtc parlance). In other words, the cloud version. We had a port to Android for a little while. Then a Wine version. But the native Linux one was an orphan.
- cgh 11y agoHave you ever tried Cisco's Webex? It's pretty good, plus it has desktop sharing and various other handy things.