1videoConference: Open Source Web Conferencing

1videoConference is a free web conferencing tool in alpha stage that’s burning up the charts on Sourceforge. Site administrators can then invite users to participate in a video, voice, text chat and screen sharing web conference. The product is far from perfect today, but if these sorts of services can be implemented well in open source they could really change the high priced game of web conferencing.

Latency and sound quality are all right so far, video image quality is acceptable. Screen sharing hardly works yet, the conference admin can only get a very low quality view of participants’ screens and participants cannot view the admin’s screen. Thus it’s alpha, a proof of concept or something you’d only want to use in certain circumstances.

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• Posted: November 11, 2006 | Filed: Channels | Permalink |

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