Voice (and Video)

[Darren Swan]

Why not go with a similar version of what Yahoo! did on the Windows version of 
their messenger? The integrated the video into their existing message window. 
They just made the text input and messages shallower. They also give the user 
the ability to resize each area to their preference. If you double click the 
video, you go full screen with it. They also offer various other options for 
switching which is the larger video on screen, and turning audio on and off.

I would like to see something similar, though I'd much prefer the option to move 
the video out of the chat window, or to switch the video to being along side the 
chat area, instead of on top of it. If was any decent with photoshop, I'd try to 
make a mochup of what I'm talking about...

Darren



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From: George Lambrou <georgelambrou721 at gmail.com>
To: Adium Development List <devel at adium.im>
Sent: Thu, February 3, 2011 2:58:39 PM
Subject: Re: Voice (and Video)


That's a very good point; I normally use video chat at home for talking to 
relatives overseas, hence my video-focused direction.

Maybe instead of simply enlarging the preview, clicking the video could toggle 
between video + text and video focused modes?

George Lambrou

On 2011-02-03, at 3:44 PM, Håvard Pedersen <fuzzy76 at fuzzy76.net> wrote:


I think you're wrong about focusing on the video. I often do videochats in an 
open office landscape, where I cannot use audio. So it's video + text instead of 
video + audio. And I don't think that kind of usage is too uncommon. This is 
possible in all IM's I have tried, so I don't think Adium should be the first 
making this kind of use difficult.
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>Håvard Pedersen
>http://fuzzy76.net/
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>On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 21:03, George Lambrou <georgelambrou721 at gmail.com> 
wrote:
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>I like Mr. Hosey's idea, but not as the main video view. I could see
>>it working best as an 'out of tab' view, i.e. video chatting with
>>person X while in the message tab of person Y.
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>>The way I see it, if a video chat is started, then the user is going
>>to want to focus on the video, maybe send one or two short messages
>>along the lines of "I can't see/hear you", or a link to a webpage. A
>>video frame in the corner would not be the main focus to me.
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>>Don't get me wrong, though, this idea sounds perfect for when the user
>>switches away from the video tab.
>>
>>George Lambrou
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>>On 2011-02-03, at 12:52 AM, Peter Hosey <boredzo at adium.im> wrote:
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>>> So, let's do something like that. Have the video be that corner view, in either 
>>>the lower-right or upper-right corner of the message view. If you expand it, it 
>>>grows to fill the lower (or upper) ~70% of the message view.
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