gTalk To Get Video Boost?

lotusleaf writes "According to an article at PCWorld, "Google Inc. has bought video conferencing software from Marratech AB", "The client software runs on Windows 2000 or XP, Mac OS X 10.4, or versions of Linux". Could this provide a cross-platform video conferencing boost to gTalk?"

Re:gTalk support in gaim

[Anonymous Coward]

new name is Pidgin

Re:gTalk support in gaim

[peragrin]

gtalk works fine under adium, which is based on libpurple, or whatever it is being called now. No video is another story. i don't see why it is so hard for video to be done. As even google said when gtalk was first sent out that video would be added.

Re:gTalk support in gaim

[nexxu]

gTalk works in gaim [pidgin] (jabber is the protocol) but unfortunately supports only text :)

Re:Skype

[abigor]

Skype video works great in OS X also. I use it all the time.

Re:Skype

[lordholm]

I just had a video conference with my mother over Skype. She use Windows and I am using a Mac. That is, your post is wrong in that it is only for windows.

However, the Mac implementation is rather buggy and one have to restart Skype occasionally when the video stops working, but it is working more or less. Despite this, it is actually the only realistic alternative to cross platform video conferencing at the moment.

Re:Congrats Marratech

[ltjohhed]

It's good to see that the development of Marratech has gotten in touch with the real world in the last couple of years. This wasn't all the case when the product was released in the mid/late 90's. A product which assumed that everyone had 100Mbit switched multicast routing enabled networks, and of course a 100Mbit internet access.

Although being a geeky developer is often a good thing, the academic world somethimes clashes hard with the 'real world'.

However the product has evolved, and now we have gotten our first Google office in Luleå!

OpenWengo

[Anonymous Coward]

Check out http://www.openwengo.org/ [openwengo.org]. It's a Free Software SIP client that provides working, cross-platform audio/video chatting. It's written by a French company. They make money by providing the ability to call phone numbers. I've used it and while it's got a few rough edges, it works well on Debian and Windows.

Ummm....

[scooter.higher]

Actually, if you have OS X 10.4 you can add a Jabber account to iChat.

I added my gTalk account to iChat, and I can video chat with other Mac users using the same setup.

Hey! Google even has a help page about this!

http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?a nswer=24076 [google.com]

RTFA : This is for internal Google use!

[cyberianpan]

TFA [pcworld.com] reports For now, Google plans to use the software internally, as a tool for its employees, the spokesman said, declining to speculate whether Google might later try to market the technology or integrate it into one of its commercial products. Should Google decide to market or integrate the technology into its products, the move would be seen as another in a string of recent steps taking Google into the sphere of collaborative work tools.

They're only then saying maybe for regular users!

Re:LibJingle

[LibrePensador]

Google interops with Gizmoproject.com for chat and will have voice real soon.

Re:Multiplatform support

[LibrePensador]

Kopete should have decent support for it once KDE 4.0 is officially released. These things take time. I actually appreciate the fact that Google is funding some of this work through SOC scholarships, rather than creating a brand new client.

In other words, they are working to integrate their work into existing projects, rather than create a close-source monolithic client for linux.

Re:Skype(MOD PARENT DOWN)

[bcmm]

I appreciate Google using an open standard for their IM system, as I use Linux and have been able to use it despite the absence of a Linux client from Google, as it works with any IM client supporting Jabber.

However, who says that their video extension to the protocol will be an open standard?

Actually, you are spot on!

[Wonderkid]

I was in Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Microsoft did buy up a number of players, one of whom had developed a fantastic MPEG4 based video codec. It could do all kinds of amazing things that even today's codecs cannot do - such as embedded data, like graphs, text and more. MS ended up with the lacklustre Windows Media player. Doing nothing with the technology they purchased. MS and others often make a purchase to block their competitors or prevent the companies they buy from becoming a threat. Of course, normally, it is simply as case of not re-inventing the wheel. How many people know where Apple's iTunes came from? Not Apple! They purchased a relatively ugly looking but technically proficient 3rd party MP3 playback application, prettied it up and et Voila! But on the whole, unlike MS and Google, Apple do tend to design and develop most of their software and products in house which is why it interoperates so well.