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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: February 05, 2008
- Total Downloads: 99,015
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 48 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.
Version 1.5.1.85 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of ooVoo 1.5.1.85
- Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 48 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: ooVoo 1.5.1.85
"Great, Terrefic, Better than Skype, Windows Live Messenger, and Sightspeed."
Pros: ooVoo is similar to skype with calls to landlines. oovoo allows a video conference with up to 6 people and you can add landlines into the conversation. Example: three people are videoconferencing and one person is talking to them through a landline all at once. oovoo has a great interface and is SIMPLE and EASY to use. Trust me on this one I needed something to use for conferencing with my grandparents and this offers the best video quality, easiest interface, best audio, and all around greatness. The name may be weird but dont judge it by that. I encourage cnet to write a review about this.
Cons: The software is still in BETA but i have NOT FOUND ANY PROBLEM and i have been using it for a month. So there is no cons.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: ooVoo 1.5.1.85
"This is a very good program to have, it work great"
Pros: Windows Vista OS works good with this product. I can talk to anyone on my list for free from the USA to Mexico, Canada with good VGA can, audio need a little work, but over all a nice Video with 6 talking at one time. Cool software. A+
Cons: Not much other than the sound breake up a little.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: ooVoo 1.5.1.85
Pros: good quilty of video
Cons: i can not make free calls to usa,as they say one can
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Version: ooVoo 1.5.1.85
"This is the best video chat program I've used to date."
Pros: Video is excellent quality. Easy to set up. Very easy to use.
Cons: Audio quality is is as bad as on any other program, choppy and laggy.
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