Web-based Chat with Webcam (without YM)
Usually, the most common way to chat and view webcam today is through Yahoo’s own Yahoo Messenger client and its chat service. However, I have to admit their client is nowhere near good on Linux. And yes I have tried the various alternatives but they don’t have direct cam support (hopefully Pidgin will soon.). For this trip that I am on, I am communicating with my family either through SMS or through Gmail’s chat. After four days on the trip, I miss my family and I want to see my baby girl so I decided to teach my wife how to activate and use Ustream.TV’s webcasting system.
I registered an account and gave it to my wife, which I then asked her to follow some steps to use Ustream. For the first night, she didn’t get to make it work. So we left it at that. This evening, I’ve logged into the Ustream account made some changes in the preferences and settings, logged out and asked her to log in. I then asked her to turn the broadcast on, and voila! I can see my wife and baby girl on cam and chat with them too. Though it is on separate windows, I did ourselves the favor of not using Yahoo Messenger, and we saved ourselves some client installation. And guess what? The video latency is almost like that on YM. I chat with my wife on Gmail, and view her and our baby on Ustream. Neat huh?
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hi how are u
Comment by ullas — March 25, 2008 @ 1:50 pm
salut
Comment by nouni26 — June 21, 2008 @ 12:00 am