Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the still-no-mac-audio-blah dept.
lotusleaf writes "According to an article at PCWorld, "Google Inc. has bought video conferencing software from Marratech AB", "The client software runs on Windows 2000 or XP, Mac OS X 10.4, or versions of Linux". Could this provide a cross-platform video conferencing boost to gTalk?"
I just had a video conference with my mother over Skype. She use Windows and I am using a Mac. That is, your post is wrong in that it is only for windows.
However, the Mac implementation is rather buggy and one have to restart Skype occasionally when the video stops working, but it is working more or less. Despite this, it is actually the only realistic alternative to cross platform video conferencing at the moment.
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Re:Congrats Marratech
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ltjohhed
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· Score: 3, Informative
It's good to see that the development of Marratech has gotten in touch with the real world in the last couple of years. This wasn't all the case when the product was released in the mid/late 90's. A product which assumed that everyone had 100Mbit switched multicast routing enabled networks, and of course a 100Mbit internet access.
Although being a geeky developer is often a good thing, the academic world somethimes clashes hard with the 'real world'.
However the product has evolved, and now we have gotten our first Google office in Luleå!
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Skype video works great in OS X also. I use it all the time.
I just had a video conference with my mother over Skype. She use Windows and I am using a Mac. That is, your post is wrong in that it is only for windows.
However, the Mac implementation is rather buggy and one have to restart Skype occasionally when the video stops working, but it is working more or less. Despite this, it is actually the only realistic alternative to cross platform video conferencing at the moment.
"Civis Europaeus sum!"
It's good to see that the development of Marratech has gotten in touch with the real world in the last couple of years. This wasn't all the case when the product was released in the mid/late 90's. A product which assumed that everyone had 100Mbit switched multicast routing enabled networks, and of course a 100Mbit internet access.
Although being a geeky developer is often a good thing, the academic world somethimes clashes hard with the 'real world'.
However the product has evolved, and now we have gotten our first Google office in Luleå!
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Actually, if you have OS X 10.4 you can add a Jabber account to iChat.
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I added my gTalk account to iChat, and I can video chat with other Mac users using the same setup.
Hey! Google even has a help page about this!
http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?
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