Ethelred Unraed's Journal: Ask ye Circle: 3-way video conf all crossplatform like

As the subject of this JE says, I'm looking around for a video conferencing software exists (preferably free-as-in-beer) that can be used for a three-way conference between Macs and Windows XP compies.

iChat AV works with AIM on Windows, but AFAIK only for two-way conferences.

Anyone? Buehler?

GAIM?

[Com2Kid]

How well does GAIM work?

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[jawtheshark]

Does GAIM even do video conferencing? I haven't seen the functionality in a stock install. I only use it for IM anyway and even then very rarely.

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[Ethelred Unraed]

At least judging from GAIM's website, video is at best beta status. No word on whether it even works on Mac OS X (I doubt it). Worse, the video fork's last release was a year ago [sourceforge.net]...doesn't look too promising.

Cheers,

Ethelred

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[Com2Kid]

Bleck I had a message typed up then I hit the X while switching tabs!

Ok short of it:

QNext [qnext.com] free as in beer, but closed source. Works on Linux, OSX, and Windows.

Ekiga [ekiga.org] runs on Linux and supports video conferencing with Netmeeting.

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[Ethelred Unraed]

Qnext looks to be exactly what I need -- cross-platform and (hopefully) easy to use...many thanks!

Cheers,

Ethelred

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[Mantorp]

Let us know how it works out. I've been using skype for video conferencing but you can only do person to person calls. Also can Qnext make video or audio calls to contacts using msn or yahoo, etc. or do they need qnext as well? Would be nifty if it could use whatever protocol the contact has.

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[Mantorp]

nevermind, checked the forums:

"QNext does not yet support video and voice conferencing with other IM clients."

Skype

[bethanie]

I only scanned the other replies, and am replying pretty late, so forgive me if it's a repeat...

But Skype just upgraded their videocon capabilities for Macs so now it should work well cross-platform. Can't vouch for it myself, since I don't have anyone that I'm videconning with (3-way or otherwise)... but it was at least within my realm of consciousness.

....Bethanie....