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Posted by on February 17, 2006, 5:23 pm
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On 30 Dec 2005 I posted this to comp.dcom.videoconf ...
> I'm looking for something like Yahoo Messenger's video chat feature,
> but able to function on a LAN that does *not* have internet access.
>
> Ie, a simple client that works with a cheap USB webcam: start the
> program, enter the IP address of the person you want to videoconference
> with, and you have a two-way video chat going. Voice is a plus but not
> necessary. Has to run on Windows.
>
> There's got to be something like this out there, but all of the free or
> cheap software I've been able to find needs some kind of central server
> ... and thus internet connectivity.
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks.
... and someone suggested using NetMeeting
NetMeeting worked fine on our LAN ... but now I'm trying to get this to
function over a VPN and slow internet connection. The quality of the
NetMeeting video is far below that of even Yahoo Messenger's built in
webcam feature. But since we want the security of a VPN and Yahoo IM
won't work in that environment, I'm looking again.
Any other suggestions? I don't mind paying for software, so long as
there's a trial version or shareware to eval first.
Basically I'm looking for a program to get two-way video chat going
directly from one IP to another. If it has tweakable bandwidth,
framerate, resolution, etc, so much the better. One end is a cable
modem in North America, the other end is a 256 kbps SDSL connection in
Asia.
NetMeeting is perfect ... except I think it's trying to send too many
frames per second, and it's performing horribly on our slow, long
distance connection. Yahoo IM quality is sufficient, but lacks the
security of our VPN.
Thank you.
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