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video conferencing over the POTS

  • 08-06-2001 8:37pm
    #1
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭


    Does anybody know of software that will allow video conferencing over a standard, non-ISDN telephone line between two pc's? I am aware of Netmeeting and all the others that allow conferencing over the 'net, but I am sick of the crap quality of sound and video.

    Presumably two PC's connected together over the phone lines would offer better quality audio/video than over the 'net. Anybody have any information?

    Thanks,

    Tom.


Comments

  • #2
    Kegser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭Kegser


    I'm a tad confused... are you referring to directly dialling into another machine and conferencing that way?

    That will make pretty much zero difference to the quality. 56K just does not do video conferencing; and that's that smile.gif


  • #3
    Zee Dude
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭Zee Dude


    Netmeeting quality is as good as it gets with POTS, you will DSL minimum to get better quality, and at least an 8mb line for real-time video.

    Sorry I can't be of any help.


  • #4
    SantaHoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,488 ✭✭✭SantaHoe


    Bah, you might get a tiny improvement... (perhaps dialing direct would avoid net congestion or laggy hops? but it'd still be 56k-choppy)
    You'd have to set up one machine with a dial-up server, then get Netmeeting (or whatever proggie) to connect to the host IP.
    A full tutorial !!here!! if you're interested.

    BTW, If you're looking for other proggies, I've heard good things about "Firetalk".
    L33t compression techniques or some such.


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