Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Google Gmail voice and video chat - soon interoperable with other video chat?

GVC 1.0.8 is out. This is very interesting (emphases mine) ...

juberjabber: Gmail voice and video v1.0.8

... Added support for the H.264/AVC video codec, in addition to the H.264/SVC codec that we typically use. This allows us to be compatible with video software that does not yet support SVC. When using H.264/AVC, Gmail video chat will send and expect in-band parameter sets, and send using a single-NAL RTP packetization....

I'm not aware of any form of publicly available video chat that interoperates. The Apple article on QuickTime H.264 is illuminating ...

... Ratified as part of the MPEG-4 standard (MPEG-4 Part 10), this ultra-efficient technology gives you excellent results across a broad range of bandwidths, from 3G for mobile devices to iChat AV for video conferencing to HD for broadcast and DVD

So will Google Video Chat interoperate with OS X iChat? And what about that new iPhone ...

Update: A paste typo messed up the previous edition

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