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This is very informative, thanks for posting! Can you elaborate on the "terrible video experience" of Google Hangouts? As a non power-user of video chat, it wo
by highfrequency 7y ago
This is very informative, thanks for posting!
Can you elaborate on the "terrible video experience" of Google Hangouts? As a non power-user of video chat, it works fine for me. And the integration with Google calendar is very convenient for setting up video meetings.
Also, I didn't realize that Zoom is interoperable. You mean I can use Zoom to video chat with someone who just has Skype?
- cameron_b 7y agoYea, you can: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/208219346-Skype-for-Business-Lync-Integration https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/208219346-Skype-fo... but I would just use the browser experience there. Laptop to laptop calls are silly to do cross-platform as almost all can be done in a browser. The big thing with interoperability is when you've got a whole room full of people, microphones and multiple displays to make everything looks and sound good on both sides and then you can't call the other party for whatever reason. H.323 is the baseline for almost all video calls. Almost anything can use it. It relies on SIP for call handling, so it's a pretty old-school but reliable thing. Lots of new cool things don't think about interoperability but in order to scale up it does matter. Hangouts' video compression leaves a lot to be desired. If you do a side-by-side comparison of how it handles packet loss or latency next to Zoom, Zoom just looks better and keeps up better. It is one of those little things that will add up when you're banging you head trying to understand what someone is saying or pointing at or sharing to you on call after call.