Re: cross-platform Video phone

[Gregory P Sweet <gps03 -at- health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us>]

Kevin,

What's the real goal here, to have eye-contact with your team particpants
or to be able share content, i.e., your desktops?
If it's about sharing content you might want to google for free
web-conferencing services or free internet whiteboards.

Also have you looked at techsmith's jing? I've heard good things about it
for this type of thing, though I haven't tried it becasue it saves the
captures to a third-party server--a definite security violation 'round
these parts.

-Cheers!

Gregory P. Sweet
Health Media Training Specialist, Certified Synchronous Learning Expert

Bureau of HEALTHCOM Network Systems Management
New York State Department of Health

techwr-l-bounces+gps03=health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com wrote on
01/04/2008 03:03:22 PM:

> Our corporate IT blocks Skype and other services for (ostensibly)
> bandwidth reasons.
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> Does anybody on the list (or anybody you know...) have video
> conversations via computer _without_ using a service like Skype or
> similar?
>
> I'm interested in a software solution (preferably free, but at least
> inexpensive) that can be used with webcams on Windows and Linux, and
> Mac, too.
>
> My manager is in Baltimore and I'm in Ottawa, Canada, and I'd like to be
> able to have free-wheeling video conversations once in a while, rather
> than stop'n'start phone or e-mail conversations where we have to save
> snapshots of what we're talking about and attach them to e-mails.
> That'd be Windows XP to Windows XP.
>
> Our graphic arteeste works almost 100% from home these days, and he's
> got a big Mac at home. So those video conversations would be Windows XP
> to Mac Leopard (or whatever).
>
> My home computers are primarily Linux, so those conversations would be
> Linux to Windows XP.
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> In all cases, we'd know the IP of the machines we'd be connecting to,
> and could likely find out any additional network info that was needful.
>
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> I've been Googling down many trails. I've found Skype and imitators, but
> they're all intermediary services - I don't see that I should need such
> - or expensive point-to-point videophone solutions, or old software that
> hasn't been updated in years or they're Windows-only, or...
>
>
>
> Anybody?
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> Kevin
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