Hello everyone, We’ve just released a new version, 1.5 (build 605), for Joomla! Integration Kit. This version integrates AVChat 3 with EasySocial, a powerful Joomla! Social Networking Extension, and we’ve added some cool new features. EasySocial Integration: EasySocial is a powerful Joomla! extension that allows you to transform your Joomla! in a Social Networking Website. The complete list of EasySocial features, you can find here. Same Username – Users will have the same username in the website and in the video chat. Double login is not needed. Same Profile Photo – The profile photos from EasySocial are automatically used for the users list and text chat inside the video chat Linked Profile Pages – View more info about the chat members by accessing their profile page[…]

Hello everyone, We’ve just released a new version, 2.1 (build 599) for AVChat Plugin Pro for WordPress 3.x. This version (2.1) is coming with new features & permissions and some small fixes. New Features & Improvements: WordPress 3.9 supported Improved the design of the AVChat 3 Settings & Permissions page, making it more user friendly Now the AVChat Plugin Pro supports WordPress multisite on subdomains Better integration with BuddyPress: now AVChat Plugin PRO detects if BuddyPress is active across the WordPress multisite Admin can easily change the Audio / Video Quality Profile, from WordPress backend Exposed the setting which allows the admin to set user’s webcam to open automatically when each he joins, together with the one which allows user to start viewing[…]

Latency and especially high latency is one of the main problems when it comes to real time communication between a client and a server, so we decided to do some testing that would ultimately tell us which of the 3 main media-servers (AMS, Wowza and Red5) can achieve the lowest latency. The Testbed The testing was done using our flagship product, AVChat 3, for both client and server side as application. The client side of AVChat was installed on a local machine in Romania. The local machine has the following processing and memory specifications: Intel i5 CPU @ 3.30Ghz and 8 GB of RAM, on a Windows 7 x64 OS. For the media server I’ve used a VPS located in[…]