MeBeam video conference program from WigiWigi (beta)
Video conference rooms for eighteen people. This page is for replaying room videos. At present it is set to replay a specific room but see below to replay a different call. You can right-click and zoom in, then hold the mouse button down and move the video windows. The forward and back arrows will skip thirty seconds. You need a connection with high speed/bandwidth and low latency or the video streams will not be synchronised. This program is in early development and sometimes off-line.
This program is still experimental and since I don't expect many messages I may not check for messages every day.
There often seems to be a five or ten second pause just after the playback has started so just wait. It's something the developer will have to iron out. The playback is best between midnight and 10am in the Broad Chalke area as the broadband speed and latency deteriorate during the day and evening, causing the video to be jerky (and out of synchronisation if it is a conference call). The upload speed for recording seems to be less affected by the time of day.
A playback of a call can be seen by using the url http://www.mebeam.com/playroom.php? and adding your room name with the $ prefix immediately after the ?.
The playback facility is often offline as it is still in development and is not integrated in the main program yet.
The other version here is for making unrecorded conference calls with up to seventeen other callers. It requires callers to choose a name for their call and they can exchange videos from different websites where this program is shown.
I tested this successfully with seven other simultaneous connections on 18/05/07 (only five other people as Ben and 'eezi me' seem to have got two connections!) - see the screen print below. Generally my download varied between 40 and 90KBps depending on how many people were sending their videos to me and upload between 10 and 18KBps. It is still beta.
Rene and Ben (top), Willem, Ben and me (centre) and 'jojomantana' and 'eezi me' (bottom). Later Ashod (the developer of this software) joined us.
Another screen print taken on 23/05/07. Top row: 'hackR' (Gareth), 'Fortra' (Wesley); second row: 'imon9', Rene and Willem; bottom row: me and 'jojomantana'. We were laughing because imon9's voice was very high-pitched, but still in sync with his video. He thought it was because he was using Linux Ubuntu but later found that it was another problem at his end.