Social Anxiety Support

_AJ_ · 01-03-2009, 09:32 AM

Which programs can do a group video audio chat??

not just a 1on1 video call

an actual group of people which you can pull in from your friends list into one chat window where anyone has the option of showing their cam or not to everyone else
and everyone has the option of speaking threw the mic to everyone else

or you can do neither and just use text while the other people show cam, or talk on the mic or whatever

can msn messanger, yahoo messanger or skype do this??

DepecheEyes · 01-03-2009, 09:41 AM

Well, I can tell you that skype doesn't have a group video chat (just voice conference). I have skype myself and I wished it had that feature.

As for a group video program, I'm sorry to say that I don't know. I only know of two websites called stickam.com and ustream.tv but of course that isn't what you're looking for.

static.unknown · 01-03-2009, 11:23 AM

Most of the programs I can think of only seem to be able to do video chat with a single user (skype, gmail chat, msn, etc), although setting for multi-users could be hidden someplace in these programs.

I was just looking around for easy to use programs that support this, and I found an interesting site http://www.mebeam.com/ (instructions at http://wigiwigi.mebeam.com/view_topi...645&forum_id=2). This seems to support what you're looking for, plus it's all flash-based (so no downloading a program), and requires no registration. The only disadvantage I can see is that anybody can join a room you create (there may be a way to put passwords on rooms or something).

For a list of more programs, you can check out http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/18/1546227.

_AJ_ · 01-03-2009, 01:16 PM

daa, msn didnt work

dullard · 01-05-2009, 10:24 AM

Have you tried Stickam (as mentioned earlier)?

its_Rob · 01-29-2009, 08:47 PM

Have you tried oovoo? I have not used it yet but it says the program allows up to 6 people to have a video chat at once and it's free to download and use.

whoishe · 08-15-2010, 01:07 AM

tinychat alot of people use it

there are many sa groups there search in gooogle tinychat

tlgibson97 · 08-17-2010, 03:17 AM

I thought skype did but I guess I was wrong. I don't see much point in having multiple video chat unless everyone is on the same LAN. Even with brouadband on both sides the quality is lacking for 1 on 1 video chat. I imagine it would be almost unusable for multiple users.

Well, now that I think about it, Yahoo messenger allows multiple video chat and it isn't too bad.

01-03-2009, 09:32 AM	#1 (permalink)
_AJ_ Status: SAS Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Posts: 1,113	Which programs do group video chat?? Which programs can do a group video audio chat?? not just a 1on1 video call an actual group of people which you can pull in from your friends list into one chat window where anyone has the option of showing their cam or not to everyone else and everyone has the option of speaking threw the mic to everyone else or you can do neither and just use text while the other people show cam, or talk on the mic or whatever can msn messanger, yahoo messanger or skype do this??

01-05-2009, 10:24 AM	#5 (permalink)
dullard Status: laming it up Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: British Columbia Gender: Male Age: 22 Posts: 670	Have you tried Stickam (as mentioned earlier)? __________________ [Last.fm]

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01-03-2009, 09:41 AM	#2 (permalink)
DepecheEyes Status: Permanently Banned Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 501	Well, I can tell you that skype doesn't have a group video chat (just voice conference). I have skype myself and I wished it had that feature. As for a group video program, I'm sorry to say that I don't know. I only know of two websites called stickam.com and ustream.tv but of course that isn't what you're looking for.

01-03-2009, 11:23 AM	#3 (permalink)
static.unknown Status: SAS Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Canada Gender: Male Age: 24 Posts: 96	Most of the programs I can think of only seem to be able to do video chat with a single user (skype, gmail chat, msn, etc), although setting for multi-users could be hidden someplace in these programs. I was just looking around for easy to use programs that support this, and I found an interesting site http://www.mebeam.com/ (instructions at http://wigiwigi.mebeam.com/view_topi...645&forum_id=2). This seems to support what you're looking for, plus it's all flash-based (so no downloading a program), and requires no registration. The only disadvantage I can see is that anybody can join a room you create (there may be a way to put passwords on rooms or something). For a list of more programs, you can check out http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/18/1546227.

01-03-2009, 01:16 PM	#4 (permalink)
_AJ_ Status: SAS Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Posts: 1,113	daa, msn didnt work

01-29-2009, 08:47 PM	#6 (permalink)
its_Rob Status: Renewed Hope Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: some where bad Gender: Male Age: 19 Posts: 352	Have you tried oovoo? I have not used it yet but it says the program allows up to 6 people to have a video chat at once and it's free to download and use.

08-15-2010, 01:07 AM	#7 (permalink)
whoishe Status: SAS Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 6	tinychat alot of people use it there are many sa groups there search in gooogle tinychat

08-17-2010, 03:17 AM	#8 (permalink)
tlgibson97 Status: Mingebag Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Marietta, Ga Gender: Male Age: 31 Posts: 785	I thought skype did but I guess I was wrong. I don't see much point in having multiple video chat unless everyone is on the same LAN. Even with brouadband on both sides the quality is lacking for 1 on 1 video chat. I imagine it would be almost unusable for multiple users. Well, now that I think about it, Yahoo messenger allows multiple video chat and it isn't too bad.