On Friday 05 Dec 2014 21:22:02 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > After a bit of Googling, I managed to get the Creative CT6840 working
> > with Cheese, QTox and Venom, but not Skype ;-(
>
> Was Firefox 34 any use? Mentioned in an off-list email to you
> yesterday. It includes this feature from October:
> http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/10/16/test-the-new-firefox-hello
> -webrtc-feature-in-firefox-beta/
Yes. I did try that and then got diverted by the discovery (I thought) of the
way to get the Creative camera working.
In fact, it will be Firefox 35 that will support the 'Hello' feature with
video conferencing. The link in the page that you cited is to the beta
download.
I didn't install it because it seems to be similar in many respects to
Hangouts, which has a number of downsides; the main ones being a distinct
latency which means that the lip-sync is lost and the fact that the feature is
an 'invitation only' arrangement, whereby the user has to send an invitation
to the other participant(s) who then join in by opening Chrome(ium) and
joining the discussion.
The reason I was attracted to the Tox clients was the fact that they are like
Skype in that once the ID of the participant(s) has been exchanged, a call can
be initiated by 'ringing' the other party who 'answers' it.
I think that my mother would struggle with joining a discussion in 'Hangouts'
or 'Hello', let alone initiating one!
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