Thursday, September 06, 2007
MeBeam video conference program is now beta
The Videobox of May 2007 has now become a program which can be used for conference calls between eight people and also for playing back the calls or leaving messages if the room name chosen by the callers includes a $ prefix so that anyone who knows the room name can view the videos later as a continuous discussion involving all callers and it skips on to the next call if there are several calls using the same room name.
The program has an inbuilt facility for eighteen callers which may be activated later. At present the bandwidth is limited by showing the video images in different size windows depending on the number of callers; two videos are large, three slightly smaller, four half the size of the original two in one row across the top, another row across the bottom if there are eight callers. I presume eighteen callers would be three rows of six.
See MeBeam Multivideo and MeBeam - my recorded room
The original WigiWigi programs started about two years ago were P2P and callers needed to know the IP address of their contacts to call them. The MeBeam version is coded in Flash and server-based.
