Windows XP is known to the most of the world as “Computer”. It’s every where, even Microsoft can not escape it’s popularity. As a chalmers student we are allowed to get a free Windows copy for personal use, So I decided to use mine to power my home Skype box instead of Ubuntu. The reasons are rather practical, as one cannot get Skype version more that 2.0 on Linux and the latest version for Windows solves all kinds of issues, from incoming Full Screen calls to better audio management.
In Pakistan one cannot use other VOIP services easily for now. May be even skype gets blcoked in the future. i will try to investigate a better solution.
The only other thing besides Skype that i am running is VNCServer and DynDns update client to be able to log into the machine. The dyndns client is not very rasilaint as it does not detect IP changes.
Infact I am sitting more and more on my windows 7 installation out of necessity as it’s video chat in skype is better than what I can get in Linux at the moment. Here is a screen shot of skype video chat with advanced statistics enabled. In this you can see various statistics for a call made to Pakistan from Gothenburg (with one way video). The green needle in the bottom says that the call quality is good (which is rare actually)
One cannot do multiparty video chat with skype. I have found a nice new application called TokBox for that which does if for free. Another utility is from oovoo, but it’s not free for multiparty video chat. This might be enough to push me into writing some thing of my own on top of already available SIP clients.
Skype on Ubuntu is known to kill the CPU.
works fine for me!
@Awais,you dont even have a camera, how can you say video chat works for you?
oh .. no video ..khun ke main cyber naheen kerta.. i thought we were talking abt voice only ..