The few times I've tried to use GTalk for a video chat, it didn't work
at all. The video was choppy, froze constantly, and ended up just
dropping the call. Skype seemed to work better for me, but it still
wasn't stellar. That said, I had two follow-on questions from this:
I know Google was looking to consolidate things at some point, but I
thought GTalk was still separate from G+. You seem to use both
interchangeably. Is that still the case, or have they gone through with
setting up G+ accounts for all users? Do you need to have a G+ account
in order to use the video chat features of GTalk?
What client for Linux, if any, are you using to access the video chat
feature?
- Scott
On 2012-10-30 22:11, Kevin Fries wrote:
>
> Seriously, the days of Microsoft trying to kill off Linux by killing Linux
> versions of programs is pretty much over. It hasn't worked, and only cost
> them money from products dieing the death of a proprietary purgatory. Even
> Microsoft's VM product formally accepts CentOS as a "officially supported
> operating system"
>
> But that being said, G+'s video chat client is far superior. At my work,
> we have completely abandoned Skype for GTalk. One of the key reasons why
> is that we use Windows, Linux, and Mac machines routinely in out
> operations. Our largest client is a very Mac friendly company, so cross
> platform is crucial to us. Even with all Windows clients, we could not get
> Skype to handle more than 3-4 video clients reliably. Some days it
> would... other days junk. But G+ has been great! Linux and Mac clients
> are not second class citizens, and we often have 6-8 remote participants
> rarely with even the slightest glitch.
>
> So, from our own experience... I would highly recommend G+ video chat over
> Skype.
>
> Kevin
> On Oct 30, 2012 3:56 PM, "Matt Graham" <danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
>
> > From: Daniel Stasinski
> > > Michael Havens wrote:
> > >> From the articles I've read it seems skype is better. But which
> > >> uses more resources? Is skype really better?
> > > I can't recall the exact numbers but in my own usage, Google Voice
> > > video used significantly less bandwidth than Skype video. Less
> > > than half. I have no idea about system resource usage though.
> >
> > Since Microsoft bought Skype, I've been thinking that they'll eventually
> > abandon the Linux Skype client, and it will stop working. So I'll probably
> > *have* to use google video or another video-chat client, not skype, at some
> > point in the future. I usually video chat with people pretty infrequently,
> > only about 3 or 4 times per year though.
> >
> > --
> > Matt G / Dances With Crows
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