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Skype Video Conferencing

June 01, 2005

Skype and video conferencing are a match made in heaven, so it's a wonder it took so damn long for integrated video conferencing in the Skype client. The Skype video feature comes not via Skype, but rather courtesy of a third-party plugin from DialCom Networks.

Dialcom's Spontania video plug-in is designed to be integrated with any 3rd party Internet-based communication solution.

Dialcom selected Skype, a premiere VoIP solution, as the first integration candidate. The product is called "Spontania video4skype" and best of all it's free. I'm not sure how they will make money off of "free", but perhaps like the "Skype" model they will have a "free" version and a "paid version" later on. For now go download the free Spontania video4skype while you still can!



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Comments to Skype Video Conferencing

  1. RE: Skype Video Conferencing
    Cyber :
    June 2, 2005 08:12 AM

    The plugin is not working !!!

  1. RE: Skype Video Conferencing
    MMan_2002 :
    June 2, 2005 10:04 PM

    I tried it Video4Skype -- fuzzy video for me. There's another new Skype plug-in called vSkype (www.vskype.com) -- it offers group video and sharing. But it's not live yet.

  1. RE: Skype Video Conferencing
    jamie007 :
    June 3, 2005 07:34 PM

    I've tested this product around 50 times with my colleagues. I was invited by a friend during a skype conf, and I didn't have any problem to install it (around 20") during the conf, and we inmediatly started a videoconf. I think that it's really great. The question is why Skype hasn't launch something like this. Congratulations to the the people that brings cool features to the Skype communitie. Jamie

  1. RE: Skype Video Conferencing
    fufu5000 :
    June 5, 2005 09:05 AM

    we tried it today, but it always says "connecting spontania" thats all. my firewall gave me an ip which the program tries to connect to and it is in madrid/spain. i think their server is down. so it is not working bc of that.

  1. RE: Skype Video Conferencing
    DVdriver :
    February 4, 2006 04:18 AM

    DVdriver software ($20) supports the new Skype video. This means you can use practically any webcam or firewire Camcorder with Skype.

  1. RE: Skype Video Conferencing
    George Miles :
    March 13, 2006 06:55 PM

    Did you all know that INVENTEERING, Inc. has just released AVACON™ for Skype™. This software is an add-on to Skype™ that turns Skype’s audio only telephone conference calls into a video telephone conference call through the use of the Skype™ Avatar. . A FREE 15-day Trial Version is available for download at: http://www.inventeering.com/Product_AVACON.html

  1. RE: Skype Video Conferencing
    Mark :
    March 18, 2006 07:57 PM

    I'm sure this technology will continue to improve. Bandwidth is always a consideration - as is the hardware/software codecs. Given time, this will be a daily part of our lives.