Need Video Chat System for Community

[=MGN=RedEagle]

Hi guys,

I am looking for a really good video chat system for one of my online communities. We have over 40K members and as many as 125K page views per day. We need something that does not work on flash and can handle 30+ users. What technology do you suggest?

 

[Anthony Parsons]

Goodluck for nothing using flash for AV chat. Flash seems to be the smaller alternative for performance at present.

 

[EQnoble]

http://www.webrtc.org/

 

[surfsup]

I have a big community as well, we use Meet Cheap , I swear it took me forever finding good video chat software and this is honestly the best it comes. It can hold hundreds, webinars, no software to dl, presentations etc.

 

[Anthony Parsons]

Development... not exactly a stable, usable product that one EQ. What they do have, seems limited to only Chrome browsers for initial testing.

 

[tafreehm]

I am thinking about getting this one:
http://www.arrowchat.com/features/

 

[Anthony Parsons]

I use flashcoms myself... but is flash obviously.

 

[Geoffrey]

I believe http://cometchat.com has a video chat feature in it.

 

[Anthony Parsons]

Wow... cometchat's come a long way. I have a license with them. I should take a second look at that one. They seem similar to Arrowchat.

 

[=MGN=RedEagle]

I have a big community as well, we use Meet Cheap , I swear it took me forever finding good video chat software and this is honestly the best it comes. It can hold hundreds, webinars, no software to dl, presentations etc.

Quick question, does it run in HTML five? Also are the sales on their page a permanent gimmick?

 

[=MGN=RedEagle]

I believe http://cometchat.com has a video chat feature in it.

I have tried that. It is really buggy.

 

[Anthony Parsons]

Hmmm... the cometchat one has come a long way it seems. Here is a Xenforo demo using it:

http://www.phpchatsoftware.com/xenforo/index.php

Open two browsers and login with both, using different demo names, and it is quite interesting.

 

[DRE]

Hi guys,

I am looking for a really good video chat system for one of my online communities. We have over 40K members and as many as 125K page views per day. We need something that does not work on flash and can handle 30+ users. What technology do you suggest?

Tinychat http://xenforo.com/community/resources/embed-tinychat-to-pages.559/

 

[DRE]

I am thinking about getting this one:
http://www.arrowchat.com/features/

I believe http://cometchat.com has a video chat feature in it.

Both only have one-on-one video chat and they use tinychat api to do it.

Just create a tinychat account at http://tinychat.com then secure your room with its own password, assign moderators from your site then embed it on your site through xenforo pages.

 

[=MGN=RedEagle]

Both only have one-on-one video chat and they use tinychat api to do it.

Just create a tinychat account at http://tinychat.com then secure your room with its own password, assign moderators from your site then embed it on your site through xenforo pages.

This was our old solution and it's just not working for many.

 

[DRE]

This was our old solution and it's just not working for many.

Politely tell them it's time to put the IE6 internet browser and 56K internet away and upgrade.

 

[EQnoble]

Development... not exactly a stable, usable product that one EQ. What they do have, seems limited to only Chrome browsers for initial testing.

Browsers

• Opera: WebRTC implement the laboratory version of Opera in January 2012. The stable version now fully supports the standard.
• Google Chrome: integrated WebRTC into its dev channel in January 2012, and the stable channel from version 20 in June 2012 (though as of July 2012, PeerConnection and MediaStream must still be enabled from the chrome://flags page)[1]
• Mozilla Firefox: Mozilla integrated WebRTC into its Firefox alpha in early 2012 which gave the browser the ability to perform audio mixing on a media stream[2]
  • In April 2012 Mozilla released a demo of WebRTC video calling that ran inside the Firefox browser[3]
  • Mozilla hope to give a useful implementation with Firefox 17 in January 2013 [4]
• Internet Explorer: Microsoft has also started work on implementation of the API[5]

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC


Theoretically you could use this to develop a centralized server based chat for the global site with private convos having a ridiculous feature set as the amount of things such as effects for the video and img cap are completely possible considering the connection for the private chat could be configured to be completely p2p.