{"id":413,"date":"2006-03-14T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T21:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~waw\/blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2006-03-14T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T21:55:13","slug":"videoconferencing-is-still-silly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/2006\/03\/14\/videoconferencing-is-still-silly\/","title":{"rendered":"Videoconferencing is still silly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Reilly asked about desktop video conferencing for distance learning, which gave me a chance to review the current (and past) crop of &quot;solutions.&quot;<\/p>\n<h3>The Chat Applications<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Pro<\/span>: AIM, MSN, etc. operate the &quot;directory server&quot; which facilitates connections by mapping familiar names, or screen names, to IP addresses. <span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><br \/>Con<\/span>: you need a screen name for that sevice, sometimes advertisement ridden, proprietary protocols, firewall issues<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">ichat<\/span>: still the best performance and most robust, but only between Mac and Mac. Full screen video<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">MSN Messenger<\/span>: Good performance and seemingly robust, but should be tested more. Fulll screen video. No Macintosh interoperability<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">AIM Triton<\/span>: couldn&#8217;t get video to work with iChat. Need another PC to try AIM to AIM video chat<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">AIM 5.9<\/span>: Works OK, but no full screen video. <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yahoo Messenger<\/span>: uses Webcams and VoIP, not necessarily in synch. Chris Moran warns it installs nasty stuff in wierd places<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The open source applications<\/h3>\n<p>Pro: free, open source, Mac or PC, adhere to H.323 standards, so play well with polycom and codian and the like, and even old NetMeeting<br \/>Con: limited features, need other person&#8217;s IP address or an enterprise gatekeeper, questionable development.upgrade paths<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">ohphonex<\/span>: the Mac version. Will do full screen, may be replace by xmeeting<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">OpenPhone<\/span>: the PC version. Difficult to download\/install, no full screen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ongoing testing is planned, especially with these latter two as I try to cobble together a test gatekeeper.<\/p>\n<p>Shoul also be noted that an iSight camera will indeed work with Windows (video, not sound, but that&#8217;s OK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Reilly asked about desktop video conferencing for distance learning, which gave me a chance to review the current (and past) crop of &quot;solutions.&quot; The Chat Applications Pro: AIM, MSN, etc. operate the &quot;directory server&quot; which facilitates connections by mapping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/2006\/03\/14\/videoconferencing-is-still-silly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6517,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}