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Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

omshanti1127 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:37:12 -0000

my daughter just moved to Dublin, Ireland. We set up Gmail video chat here (in U.S.) on our computers and it worked fine. But now that she is over there, it doesn't work. Can somebody help me?

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

Name — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:05:41 -0000

Tested video chat feature with two users on home network. The Skype video chat is way clearer and so is the audio. I love my gmail e-mail, Chrome Browser, but Skype does a much better job.

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

Tulay C Leonhardt — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:12:38 -0000

Does video chat work with Turkey & UK? Can't find it any where about. I was using Skype.

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

ged — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:35:41 -0000

Skype have already countered. They have opened up a SIP API :)

they dont advertise it much. Funny that. Arseholes :)

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

Video Chat — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:13:16 -0000

After testing it I can say it works great!

Google software and web applications always work great!

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

charles sananes — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:16:35 -0000

i am not yet conected

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

charles sananes — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:16:35 -0000

i am not yet conected

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

College Chat — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:57:22 -0000

I've found its just as good as Skype and it creates one less thing to have open on my desktop. I'd love to see Google allow us to record our chat sessions and store them within our user quota.

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

Arsen Yeremin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:35:20 -0000

Skype still offers better quality. Especially when voiping with Europe. Plus you cant do this:
javascript:void(location='skype:-'+escape(document.selection?document.selection.createRange().text:(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():(document.getSelection?document.getSelection:''))).replace(/[^\d]+/g, ''))

To call a land line all I have to do is select the phone number and hit a bookmark with this URL. Works in Chrome have not tested in other browsers, but should work.

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

Camilo Carrillo — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:49:13 -0000

Hi!!! seems to be nice... but please do it for linux!!!

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

Keith Bloemendaal — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:24:42 -0000

Great! I am downloading it now. I use skype video for family and have been chatting on GTalk for business for some time, maybe can do video chat instead ( I am still only about 40wpm typer!)

Thanks for the tip!

Keith

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

Tom Reitz — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:16:00 -0000

seems pretty slick to me.. had a hiccup getting it started on Mac OS X 10.4 Server that I have but got it working by choosing the customization feature during install and only choosing one of them... unfortunately I can't remember which one it was :-( but all is working and it is rather fast. might even be quicker video than iChat

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

finferflu — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:43:11 -0000

I will be very interested to see this extension available for Linux. Only then this will be an alternative to Skype for me.

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

alivilan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:06:30 -0000

VZOChat is more better. Linux client on the way)) Woking on wine in Mac perfect now with cameras

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

Jason — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:53:47 -0000

Meh... Ebay isn't doing much with Skype anyway. Google just needs people to use it. I would also bet there are about a billion people who have never heard of Skype but already have at least one Google account. Maybe there will be a "rising tide" effect on Skype.

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

Surender Sharma — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:37:25 -0000

This is very excited tool for gmail users.Gmail users can discuss live via this video too.Thanks for googlers.

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

Stephanie — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:54:46 -0000

The video quality is seamless! I am loving it! I just hope more people add it. Also, do you know of any IM gadget type of thing that will allow me to also use the video feature through my different IMs but compiles all lists into one. Like Adium or Digsby but also shows video? That would be amazing!

thanks for showing me this! xo

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

Dude — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:37:59 -0000

Is this yet another "killer" of Google? Like Knol was supposed to kill Wikipedia? And Google Checkout was supposed to kill Paypal?

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

Justin Uberti — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:48:19 -0000

Gmail video chat uses open protocols. It is based on XMPP, RTP, and H.264.

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

yehoni — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:24:19 -0000

I don't know about Skype, but in gmail, the protocols actually *are* open. From the gmail blog announcement:

"And in the spirit of open communications, we designed this feature using Internet standards such as XMPP, RTP, and H.264, which means that third-party applications and networks can choose to interoperate with Gmail voice and video chat."

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

Chris — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:30:32 -0000

Great stuff here, Gmail keeps getting better and better. What I would like to see is the ability to record a video and send it to somebody.. a video message kind of thing. At least with other gmail users, there is plenty of space for them to receive the video.

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

crashsystems — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:59:47 -0000

I was very exited to see this, but it turns out that yet again they are giving Linux users the cold shoulder. I will be exited once again once they finally get around to releasing for Linux.

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

Steven — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:02:26 -0000

Agreed, they are able to do P2P with the Flash10 player.

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

Alex — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:40:39 -0000

Basically, the problem with Skype and GMail Video Chat is: The protocols are not open.

Re: Gmail Video Chat: The Anti-Skype Arrives

Alex — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:37:11 -0000

Yes, encryption is a very important issue. But not the only one. Some reasons why I don't use Skype though it is fully encrypted: http://www.secdev.org/conf/....