Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Internet Tools
Adium adds videochat via MeBeam
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Cameron David said 5:09PM on 11-10-2007
Ya know, I heard about something called iChat that supossedly does the exact same thing.
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David Bose said 6:30PM on 11-10-2007
Unfortunately you can't have a MSN account with that.
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leonard_shelby said 9:49PM on 11-10-2007
@david bose
you can - via jabber
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Bryan T said 2:32AM on 11-11-2007
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?
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Sean said 4:33PM on 11-11-2007
"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.
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Tom said 1:06PM on 11-12-2007
They need to fix the freaking file transfer first, it works about 25% of the time for me...
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stef said 5:18PM on 11-18-2007
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.
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diane wright said 6:58PM on 12-03-2007
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.
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mikephd96 said 11:01PM on 12-07-2007
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?
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Mark Scrimshire said 7:20PM on 12-26-2007
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
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Mark Scrimshire said 7:23PM on 12-26-2007
Let's try that again:
http://www.tokbox.com