Google recently switched on the tubes behind Google Video Chat. Mark Robertson and I had a chance to test it out and here are my thoughts on it. The video and audio chats require that you have the Google Talk Plugin v1.0.2.0 installed. Unfortunately, it is limited in operating systems and browsers that it is compatible with. It currently supports Firefox 2.0+, IE 6.0+, Safari 3.0+ and of course Google Chrome. While it states on the help page that Firefox is available for Linux, the Google Talk plugin in fact is not.Next it appears to be seriously processor intensive. My Athlon 64-based laptop (2.4Ghz, 1GB RAM) struggled to run the video chat and do anything else, up to and including showing me text in Notepad. So it’s not exactly the most well written application from what I’m seeing at present. Of course, it’s still in its infancy and there are bound to be bugs and kinks that need to be ironed out.It runs as its own .exe and even when you’re not using it in the browser it’s there sucking down some power if you have a Gmail tab or window open. I’m also fairly sure it’s been the cause of several Firefox 3.0 crashes lately (Windows XP) as the software was far more stable prior to my recent installation of the Google Talk Plugin. It starts up automatically when you head to Gmail and runs in the background using up about 5.2MB of memory and generally no processing when not in use. However, I don’t understand why it couldn’t start up when a chat was actually initialized instead of when one just visits Gmail. Most of us are going there for mail and not for video chat.Personally I have a great big fat bandwidth pipe here at home. So I see no reason why any streaming video, especially when in a window so small, should be laggy. Yet this video was. It was so laggy at times that it was barely usable. There’s also a massive delay between saying something and the other person hearing it. This can be experienced by talking and watching the other person ...

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Earlier today Google launched a new plug-in to Gmail that enables voice and video chat within their popular free email service. Google's desktop chat application Google Talk has had voice for sometime but this marks Google's first videoconferencing product. Google says that it's also the first webmail service to include video chat and clearly has set itself up to compete directly with Skype, Tokbox, ooVoo and other video chat applications. This adds a whole new capability for consumers and businesses who use Gmail and Google apps. The new product was made possible through Google's acquisition of the Swedish e-meeting startup Marratech last year and a licensing agreement with New Jersey start-up Vidyo. Serge Lachapelle, the Swedish Google product manager in this video had been the VP of product management at Marratech. From the Google System blog: "As anticipated in the post about Gmail SMS, video chat is the next big that will be added to Gmail. Justin Uberti says that video chat will be added today, along with voice chat. "We've tried to make this an easy-to-use, seamless experience, with high-quality audio and video. And we've built this product using Internet standards, such as XMPP, RTP, and the newly-standardized H.264/SVC video codec." To try the new features go to http://mail.google.com/videochat and install the required plug-in (Windows & Mac-only, for now). After restarting the browser, open Gmail, select a contact from the chat section and see if there's an option named "Video & more". If you can't find this option, your friend didn't install the plug-in yet." Like other video chat solutions you'll need a web cam and microphone and download the plug-in. It uses about 300 kbps for bidirectional video and works with browsers that support the current version of Gmail: Chrome, Firefox 2.0+, Internet Explorer 7.0, and Safari 3.0 but there are no plans for a Linux-based plug-in. Unlike Skype Premium or ooVoo, Gmail Video and Voice does not connect to regular phone numbers and only t...