[Hidden-tech] Video Chat

[Michael Muller]

Skype uses your connected video camera (or web cam or whatever) and converts/compresses the video to Flash video and transmits it to the receiving Skype caller. The video screen you see is actually a Flash video player. I'm not sure if this implies that you can save video onto your hard drive and then send it, or if you can make Flash swf files and transmit them, though.

The file transfer is different. It is sort of like a personal client-to-client FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and requires permission from the receiver before the file is transferred.

Michael


At 07:33 PM 1/3/2007, you wrote:

>In a message dated 1/3/07 4:45:40 PM, michael at mullertech.com writes:
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>>Skype is excellent. It's free, you can also text-chat on the side and transfer files too. I've never video chatted with more than one person, but I think it's possible to do. I believe they use flash for the video.
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>Michael, could you please explain how Skype uses Flash.  I have been assuming that one must first have a video file that is then compressed into Flash before distributed on the web and thus would not be appropriate for live web chats.  Curious to know more about this.
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>George
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>Videatives, Inc. 

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