Adium adds videochat via MeBeam

Videochatting has finally come to Adium-- kind of. They report on their blog that a company called MeBeam has been working on a cross-platform Flash solution, and they've hooked up Adium to use that service. On their site, MeBeam seems a little aloof about what Adium is (they haven't actually ever used it), but they seem excited to have Adium users flying through their servers.

To get it up and running, you'll need to download the plugin from Adium's Xtras site, and then of course have a camera (and they recommend a headset) ready to roll. Unfortunately, it seems all the plugin does is break open a link to MeBeam in your web browser, and connect the two users up, so it's definitely not a native solution. However, Adium's Eric Richie confirms in the comments that this is not meant to be an end solution-- it's simply a side project "in the meantime." Adium is still working on native video implementation, and so we can still expect to see native video chat sometime in the future.

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Mark Scrimshire

Don't forget tokbox. They have integrated nicely with meebo. Integrating with adium should be as simple as sending a link to your tokbox account at hhtp://www.tokbox.com

December 26 2007 at 7:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Mark Scrimshire

Let's try that again:

http://www.tokbox.com

December 26 2007 at 7:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mikephd96

Hi, I really would like to know when you think OOVOO will be available for the mac. I'm thinking about buying a mac but use OOVOO extensively. It's been comming soon on the oovoo website for six months. Is it a week, month, six months? What's the best most conservative estimate?

December 07 2007 at 11:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

diane wright

Hopefully a few people are still reading through this post. I know it is a few weeks old. But just wanted to let you know in case you did not that ooVoo is getting close to launching its web conferencing software for MAC. I've listed the specs below. I am a representative for ooVoo and so would be interested in the MAC users experience with ooVoo.

Free video chat * Up to 6 people in video conference at one time * Text messaging* Record and send video messages * View call history* Send files up to 25MB, 20 at a time while contact is offline* Import contacts from address book
* ooVoo me link for website or email signature* Privacy settings allow you to decide who can ooVoo you.

Drop me a line if you have questions.

December 03 2007 at 6:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

stef

The MeBeam service does not depend that much on the software. As a result you can e.g. video conference with MSN contacts while using a Jabber client that does not know anything about MSN, like Coccinella, using a server-side MSN transport.

November 18 2007 at 5:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tom

They need to fix the freaking file transfer first, it works about 25% of the time for me...

November 12 2007 at 6:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sean

"you can - via jabber"

Jabber doesn't support video conferencing in ichat. The other option is aMSN which i have found to be a little unstable on Leopard. Adium's temporary solution is working great for me and my MSN contacts.

November 11 2007 at 4:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bryan T

Not working at all for me....Also, shouldn't it turn on my camera? When I try this, me and my friend can get into the room, its just our cameras aren't on...suggestions?

November 11 2007 at 2:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

leonard_shelby

@david bose
you can - via jabber

November 10 2007 at 9:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David Bose

Unfortunately you can't have a MSN account with that.

November 10 2007 at 6:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Cameron David

Ya know, I heard about something called iChat that supossedly does the exact same thing.

November 10 2007 at 5:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply