On Monday 08 Dec 2014 16:29:54 Terry Coles wrote:
> On Sunday 07 Dec 2014 21:42:54 Stephen Wolff wrote:
> > Have you tried Google Hangouts out of interest - had some better
> > experiences (video-wise) than with Skype for work calls fairly recently
> > - with multiple people (ie conference type) using a mixed bag of OSs (ie
> > Ubuntu, OSX, Win7). Might be worth a shot given Google are reasonably OS
> > agnostic?
>
> Yes. I did. I tried it with my nephew and we both agreed that setting up a
> call or joining a conference would be a bit beyond my mother. I also got
> poorer video performance with Hangouts than I did with Skype, so the
> lip-sync was lost.
Answering myself.
Someone over on the Skype forums has just pointed out that Hangouts has a
desktop App and I immediately recalled that I'd tried it some time ago. I
just tried it again and it works quite well, but video performance is still
rubbish.
I just did some measurements on my internal network and even using my hi-res
camera and with the bandwdth slider set to max, Hangouts only consume 220 kbps
on the uplink (compared to approx 480 kbps for Skype). As before the video is
grainy and the lip-sync awful.
So it would work fine with my broadband capability, but the quality would be
unacceptable for talking to my Mum.
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