MeBeam

Pidgin using MeBeam for video

Over the last twelve months, MeBeam has been working with key instant messaging clients, providing a generic, protocol agnostic video call and conferencing solution, that works across any jabber network.

Today, I am very happy to announce, that Pidgin IM can make video calls to one or more friends instantly from their contact list.

Video calls can be made to anyone on your contact list, regardless of which Jabber network they are on.

Imagine, selecting one friend on your contact list from Adium, another friend who is on ICQ, and a third friend who is on Pidgin and make a 3 way video call.

Only the person making the video call needs to have a Jabber client with a MeBeam plugin. In other words, anyone can receive a video call, regardless of what client, network or platform they are using.

The following are step by step instruction on how to install and use the Pidgin MeBeam Plugin.


(1) Download Pidgin MeBeam plugin for Windows by clicking here.


(2) If you have Pidgin already running, you should close it at this point.


(3) Once download is complete, run the installer.


(4) Start Pidgin again


(5) Go to the Tools menu and click on plugins.



(6) Make sure the MeBeam plugin is ticked, and then click 'CLOSE'



(7) To make a video call to a single friend, right click on their name, and select 'Invite to MeBeam'.




(8) To make a video conference for multiple friends, right click on the main 'Buddies' section, and select 'Invite to MeBeam'




(9) Select all the contacts you want to invite to the video conference by selecting them from the left column and then click 'Invite to MeBeam'

The World's Fastest

Many moons ago, myself and a small community of early adopters, set out to design and build , literally

"The world's fastest video phone"

At the time, this was a powerful mantra, because video phones back in those days, suffered from jerky, photo like video and terrible audio to video synchronization.

The project, called WigiWigi, was, without a doubt, a labor of love.

It was not uncommon for me to release dozens of versions of the project every night, with each one ever so slowly inching towards faster and faster frame rates, until it was common knowledge, that WigiWigi, was without a doubt the world's fastest video phone.

The late Russel Shaw of ZDnet, covered my work, by writing an article about our first commercial release called Vwho.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1040

The challenges were massive, everything was developed by hand, in both C and assembler. Audio compression, Video compression, network protocols, P2P layers etc, were all written completely from scratch, and optimized to the point, where, even today, the WigiWigi engine, still beats the pants off, virtually all of todays video phones.

The WigiWigi project, was a very satisfying chapter in my and the amazing crew of testers and community.


Today, "The World's Fastest...", is still at the core of everything I do.


Recently, this goal was immortalized, by a group of kids, who are known as sport stackers, who use MeBeam, to show off their skills to each other, and trying to break speed records in this unusual, yet, very cool, past time.

SportStacking, is the art of stacking and unstacking, plastic cups, into different formations at a blindingly fast pace.

Steven Purugganan, who is currently the world record holder for this, along with his friends, use Mebeam, to display their skills and try to smash record times.

MeBeam, is used, because, it allows people to communicate using video, at real-time speeds, without jerky, grainy movement.

Check out the following recordings of MeBeam sessions, to get an idea of how fast MeBeam and these guys are.

Feeling lucky punks ?

Like most boys, I love Dirty Harry, but what I am getting very tired of is, hairy dirty punks, who continue to expose themselves on MeBeam, MiniMe, and anything else, I spend my time making.

It is a battle that I just can't win. For one reason or another, some boys out there ( and some girls for that matter ) , can't seem to keep their magnums in their pants - and feel that we all need to see their amazingly erotic bodies.

Don't get me wrong - Cyber sex, flirting , having fun etc, between consenting adults, is completely OK by me, but there is a time and a place for this, and public video rooms are not it.

Anyway, the point is, wankers are here to stay, so I am hoping that, the following little cubby I have made for you guys, will persuade you, to get the fcuk off Mebeam, and do your business in your own corner of the universe.

From this day on, if you want to show yourself, have a peek, or just be part of this amazingly exciting pastime, please visit www.chatvue.com.

This room is especially for you guys and gals. By all means, knock yourselfs out and have a blast, but just do it at chatvue.com, so that we can all enjoy Mebeam in a safe and open way.

So if your feeling lucky, and want to be a dirty hairy punk, check out

www.chatvue.com

MeBeam up and running

The technical issues which we have been experiencing over the last few days have been solved, and I am hopeful, everything should be back to normal.

MeBeam problems

MeBeam has had some technical issues over the last few days, I apologise for the inconvenience, and hope to have these resolved asap.

Thanks in advance for your patience.

Ashod