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- Price: Free; paid upgrade avaialable
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: December 01, 2009
- Total Downloads: 159,147
- Downloads last week: 1,997
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 50 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
ooVoo is an iChat-like video conferencing and chat tool for Windows, loaded with useful, powerful tools that make it a viable alternative for small work groups using conference calls and screen-sharing applications.
A recording feature lets users tape video chats with other participants. Since the video and audio are being recorded to the hard drive, the only time limit is how much free space the computer's hard drive has. In testing, a nearly 15-minute, four-way video conversation only took up 95MB, which ooVoo can convert into a workable FLV file.
A conference calling tool gives host and participants a phone number to call. Other ooVoo users who call this conference line get plugged right into the audio that's a part of the video chat, and just like the video recordings, this audio gets archived too. Call-in lines support up to six people, meaning users can have up to a dozen participants--including those on the video side. Note that this service isn't free. An optional companion for ooVoo's video player can be used for screen sharing or file sharing, and fun facial overlay tool that applies digital masks either to users faces or to backgrounds. High-quality video streams are also supported.
Two qualms with the service are the audio quality, which sounded a little too compressed, and delays in the datastream of about a second or more. Besides being annoying, it can really force a heated debate to grind to a halt. Overall, ooVoo makes for a strong alternative to other VoIP and conferencing software.
Publisher's description
From ooVoo :ooVoo is changing the way people communicate and connect online with its high-quality video and audio and multi-user capabilities that allow up to six people to talk face-to-face with each other at the same time. Using ooVoo is easy and fun, all consumers need is a computer, a broadband connection and a Web camera. In addition, ooVoo offers video messaging to an email or another ooVoo account, text messaging, and file sharing.
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Version: ooVoo 2.2.3.24
"Damned good looking--graphics"
Pros: I think its very fine to look at.
Cons: I do not like to work with it.
when i could not recall my logon name--hmm
then I was also unable to find it.Summary: It never talked my to me--
I never started it using it as I maybe should -
Version: ooVoo 2.2.3.24
"Allows 6-site concurrent video conferencing"
Pros: Works well with Logitech 9000 for auto-focusing to present good images during 6-site video conference calls. Works OK with most built-in laptop cameras. Desktop sharing makes this an outstanding presentation tool.
Cons: Resource hog (on typical business PCs). May require network configuration to operate smoothly. Video tutorials are an insufficient substitute for a good manual.
Summary: Pros in detail:
When combined with the Logitech 9000 camera, ooVoo is a low-cost video conferencing service with lots of features including desktop sharing. We now have a group of about 20 people who use ooVoo on a regular basis and will... read more >> - See all 2 user reviews Write review
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