Google has integrated a new option in Gmail, which should improve the quality of video chats. It enlarges the chat window and increase the resolution of the video stream to 640 by 480 pixels. The new feature also works in iGoogle, and Orkut.
According to a blog entry the better image quality resulting from hardware acceleration when rendering. The decoding software successes, however, is still based, Christopher Vander Mey said in an interview with ZDNet. “We use a form called the H.264 codec, the Scalable Video Coding (SVC) is.” Instead of a single image of each frame consists of four overlapping images with low quality, resulting in a high-quality composite image.
According to the company can thus be encoded videos to adapt better to the available bandwidth. “It works quite well with data rates of 256 kbit / s to 1 Mbit / s,” said Vander Mey. Previously, Google had only streams at up to 500 kbit / s are supported.
In May, Google, which specializes in internet telephony and video conferencing company, Global IP Solutions was acquired for $ 68.2 million. According to Vander Mey, the new video technology comes not from this acquisition, but from Google’s O3D project. The API presented in April 2009 was originally supposed to access hardware accelerated 3D capabilities give the browser. In May this year the company announced that, to instead support WebGL O3D and convert it into a library of JavaScript functions on the basis of WebGL.
Linux users enjoy the enhanced video chat now available by default. All others must activate the new feature in the tab “Labs” in “Settings”. “In the long term we want to offer it to all customers as standard,” said Vander Mey.
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Google has integrated a new option in Gmail, which should improve the quality of video chats. It enlarges the chat window and increase the resolution of the video stream to 640 by 480 pixels. The new feature also works in iGoogle, and Orkut. According to a blog entry the better image quality resulting from hardware [...]
Google has integrated a new option in Gmail, which should improve the quality of video chats. It enlarges the chat window and increase the resolution of the video stream to 640 by 480 pixels. The new feature also works in iGoogle, and Orkut. According to a blog entry the better image quality resulting from hardware [...]
Google has integrated a new option in Gmail, which should improve the quality of video chats. It enlarges the chat window and increase the resolution of the video stream to 640 by 480 pixels. The new feature also works in iGoogle, and Orkut. According to a blog entry the better image quality resulting from hardware [...]
Google has integrated a new option in Gmail, which should improve the quality of video chats. It enlarges the chat window and increase the resolution of the video stream to 640 by 480 pixels. The new feature also works in iGoogle, and Orkut. According to a blog entry the better image quality resulting from hardware [...]
Google has integrated a new option in Gmail, which should improve the quality of video chats. It enlarges the chat window and increase the resolution of the video stream to 640 by 480 pixels. The new feature also works in iGoogle, and Orkut. According to a blog entry the better image quality resulting from hardware [...]
Google has integrated a new option in Gmail, which should improve the quality of video chats. It enlarges the chat window and increase the resolution of the video stream to 640 by 480 pixels. The new feature also works in iGoogle, and Orkut. According to a blog entry the better image quality resulting from hardware [...]
Google has integrated a new option in Gmail, which should improve the quality of video chats. It enlarges the chat window and increase the resolution of the video stream to 640 by 480 pixels. The new feature also works in iGoogle, and Orkut. According to a blog entry the better image quality resulting from hardware [...]
