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Cross Platform Video Conferencing Software?

Posted by Cliff on from the have-webcam-will-travel? dept.

soyle asks: "Most of my family recently aquired webcams, but we all run different operating systems (Mac OS 9, Linux and Windows 98). Searching through the web for software that supports most of the above yielded pretty much nothing at all. I contacted one vendor who provides a free-beer version of a MacOS/Windows solution, but the person I spoke to said they they thought a linux port would require too much effort. However, if anyone had a basic skeleton for an application providing basic video/sound in/out, they'd be willing to work with the developers in order to plug in their own transport-code and develop a useable application. So my question is really twofold: Does anyone know of an existing video conferencing application that supports all three major desktop platforms? Does anyone know of an application whose developers would be willing to work with said company?"

4 of 17 comments (clear)

  1. H.323 by ReluctantBadger · · Score: 5, Informative


    You might want to look at H.323 - http://www.openh323.org/. It's got support for Linux, plus H.323 is used by NetMeeting on Win32, now all you need is a Mac client. Also look at http://www.packetizer.com/h323link.html. You may even be able to do a porting from the openh323 linux code to OSX?? (not sure on this one)

  2. free(beer) cross-platform videoconferencing tools by ninewands · · Score: 5, Informative

    Look here for tools for Windows/Linux and just about every other Unix variant. No Mac support, but the freeware packages you've found that run on Windows/Mac should suffice as long as they adhere to the standard protocols supported by the UCL tools.

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  3. CU-SeeMe? by The+Mayor · · Score: 4, Informative

    How about CU-SeeMe? This is an old videoconferencing software developed at Carnegie Mellon in 1993. I haven't played with it in years, but it meets the free software requirements you ask, and supports Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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  4. CU30 can do windows and linux. full frame rate too by deathcubek · · Score: 4, Informative
    but I think qvix technologies is still sitting on the windows version. You'll have to ask them (or port it).

    Features-

    30 frames per second

    full size frames

    doable on dsl and moderate hardware

    software exists on windows and linux

    linux has a gpl'd version


    Cu30.sourceforge
    Qvix Tech.

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