[d] cross-platform Video phone

[Will Sansbury]

TokBox might be exactly what you need. It's all Web-based, so should work
from any OS for which there is a Flash plugin.

http://tokbox.com/

Will Sansbury
www.willsansbury.com

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> Subject: [d] cross-platform Video phone
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> Our corporate IT blocks Skype and other services for 
> (ostensibly) bandwidth reasons.
> 
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> 
> Does anybody on the list (or anybody you know...) have video 
> conversations via computer _without_ using a service like 
> Skype or similar?
> 
> I'm interested in a software solution (preferably free, but at least
> inexpensive) that can be used with webcams on Windows and 
> Linux, and Mac, too.
> 
> My manager is in Baltimore and I'm in Ottawa, Canada, and I'd 
> like to be able to have free-wheeling video conversations 
> once in a while, rather than stop'n'start phone or e-mail 
> conversations where we have to save snapshots of what we're 
> talking about and attach them to e-mails.
> That'd be Windows XP to Windows XP.
> 
> Our graphic arteeste works almost 100% from home these days, 
> and he's got a big Mac at home. So those video conversations 
> would be Windows XP to Mac Leopard (or whatever).
> 
> My home computers are primarily Linux, so those conversations 
> would be Linux to Windows XP.
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> In all cases, we'd know the IP of the machines we'd be 
> connecting to, and could likely find out any additional 
> network info that was needful.
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> 
> I've been Googling down many trails. I've found Skype and 
> imitators, but they're all intermediary services - I don't 
> see that I should need such
> - or expensive point-to-point videophone solutions, or old 
> software that hasn't been updated in years or they're 
> Windows-only, or... 
> 
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> Anybody?
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> Kevin
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