Comments on: The technology behind Google+ Hangouts http://gigaom.com/2011/06/30/google-hangouts-technology/ Thu, 23 May 2013 09:49:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Peter http://gigaom.com/2011/06/30/google-hangouts-technology/#comment-639024 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:08:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=370437#comment-639024 For you maybe, it has worked fine for me on a small but growing scale over the last two days

]]> By: Mark http://gigaom.com/2011/06/30/google-hangouts-technology/#comment-638495 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:50:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=370437#comment-638495 Hangouts isn’t working right now.. I keep getting a crash everytime I’m starting a video conference..

]]> By: Warmbowski http://gigaom.com/2011/06/30/google-hangouts-technology/#comment-637830 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:54:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=370437#comment-637830 To me, the key difference of this video conference service to the Skype service, is the Scalable Video Coding (SVC) that they licensed from Vidyo, which differs from traditional AVC encoding in that it allows layers of fidelity in the video stream, so that it can be adjusted on the fly to what the endpoint can handle bandwidth and CPU wise. Is this also possible with WebM?

]]> By: Jim http://gigaom.com/2011/06/30/google-hangouts-technology/#comment-637499 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:03:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=370437#comment-637499 Seems like Google is getting on the right track after a couple of failed attempts. This is a really neat feature!

]]> By: brian http://gigaom.com/2011/06/30/google-hangouts-technology/#comment-637450 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:47:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=370437#comment-637450 don’t feed the troll…

]]> By: pugscanfly http://gigaom.com/2011/06/30/google-hangouts-technology/#comment-636782 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:50:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=370437#comment-636782 Google has yet to drop support for H.264 in Chrome. I have a feeling that WebM is not robust enough to do what they need to with Hangouts at this point. WebM seems like a red herring to me. The whole notion that it is free and open is ridiculous. It’s as free and open as Android is.

]]> By: ipraxa http://gigaom.com/2011/06/30/google-hangouts-technology/#comment-636709 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:54:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=370437#comment-636709 Google is the major key player before WebM project featuring VP8 open source video codec. Earlier this year, it had recently dropped support for H.264 video codec for its Google Chrome browser and switched to WebM video format. So, it means Hangouts supporting H.264/SVC video format may face problem in Chrome, the war machine of Google, itself. So, Google has to quickly switch to VP8 video format or have an on-the-fly conversion from H.264 to VP8.

]]> By: paul http://gigaom.com/2011/06/30/google-hangouts-technology/#comment-636681 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:47:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=370437#comment-636681 Tim, have you actually tried G+?

]]> By: black_caeser http://gigaom.com/2011/06/30/google-hangouts-technology/#comment-636632 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:43:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=370437#comment-636632 > And Google TV users could see Hangouts appear on their TV sets sooner
> than they think, because Google TV comes with a full-blown Chrome
> browser.

Mind that Opera is used as embedded browser for quite some TV sets like Sony Bravia. WebRTC would open Google+ Hangouts to those users too …

Also this could be the breakthrough of WebM, forcing Microsoft and Apple to include it with their browsers.

]]> By: Sumant http://gigaom.com/2011/06/30/google-hangouts-technology/#comment-636508 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:12:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=370437#comment-636508 Wonder if it can support h.323 too ??

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