Note: the colors have gone wrong because the programmer is changing things.
MeBeam video conference program from WigiWigi (beta)
Note: the colors have gone wrong because the programmer is changing things.
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Video conference rooms for eighteen people. This room is automatically preset to $ozbroadchalke. Setting a preset enables callers to have their own room for regular use with contacts and friends and if desired the series of calls can be recorded for later playback. It will not work on a computer unless Flash software is already installed. This program is in early development and sometimes off-line. It needs a fast broadband connection with low latency.
Instructions
This program is still experimental and since I don't expect many messages I may not check for messages every day.
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.
If you wish to set up your own preset room name, look at the source code for this page and copy the object tag code from <object type= to </object> into your own web page code. Change $ozbroadchalke to your own room name (minimum four characters, maximum sixteen, no spaces), with a $ prefix if you want the video calls to be recorded.
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 ?. You need a connection with high speed/bandwidth and low latency or the video streams will not be synchronised.
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 unrecorded calls with up to seventeen other callers and requires callers to choose a name for their call and they can exchange videos from different websites where this program is shown.
Willem, Ashod (the developer of this software) and me on 27th July 2007.
'Dajavoodoo' (Simon), me and 'eezi me' on 30th August 2007.
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.