AVChat 3 - Video Chat Software For Your Web Site.


Audio & Video Chat Features:

One2one or one2many audio and video streams

Once you join a room in the video chat you can start your webcam/mic so that others can see and hear you or you can start viewing and hearing others!

Private audio and video streams

Users can make their audio video streams private. Potential viewers will have to request permission first before being able to see/hear the broadcaster.

Latency display

Users can see in real time how much it takes for the audio and video data to travel from the original broadcaster to the receiver. This might help identify some latency related issues. More info in our blog post on this feature.

Full control over the audio and video quality

You have full control over the audio and video quality experienced by your users. You can change the video resolution, the picture quality, the fps value and the sound quality (sound rate).

 

Dynamic bandwidth reduction

The chat software automatically prevents audio and video streams from actually being sent to the media server if no one is watching them, thus saving a lot of bandwidth. More info in our blog post on this feature.

View video streams full screen

Users can now view in full screen any video stream from chat rooms! How cool is that?!

  

 

 

Text Chat Features:

Fully customizable emote icons

All the emote icons with which the chat software ships can be changed to your own and you can even add new ones and remove old ones!

Upload files to rooms or send files directly to people

Users can now upload files to rooms or send them directly to users. Uploaded images are automatically loaded and previewed in the text chat area.

Private messages in separate tabs

Users can now hold private discussions in separate tabs, totally independent of the main room! Closing the main room will also close all PM's held in that room so beware!

YouTube movies displayed directly in the text chat area

If anyone types in a link to a movie on YouTube, AVChat 3 will automatically load that video directly in the chat! Unfortunately due to some technical limitations only one YouTube move can be previewed in the text chat. Consequent links will not be parsed anymore.

Enhanced users list

The new users list can display the users in the room, who is watching you, who you have blocked, etc.... It can also display the avatar of each user and weather or not the user has a webcam/mic (even tough the webcam/mic is not started) .

Who is typing display

Users can see in real time if anyone is typing. This function is available in both public and private rooms and in private discussions! This is the most useful but not asked for feature we've added to AVChat 3!

Full formatting options

Users have full control over how their text looks. with bold, underline, italic, color and font face options.

Customizable sounds

The sounds for login/logout/buzz/new text message can be replaced with your own mp3's.

Links are highlighted automatically

If you allow links in the text chat, our software automatically parses them and turns them into actual clickable links (blue underlined).

 

 

Limit What Users Can Do

AVChat 3 gives you great flexibility in what regards what your users can and can not do. Once the video chat software is properly integrated with your web site you are able to limit specific features to specific user levels in your web site. These are the most important limits that you can control:

Numeric limits

  • allow only a limited amount of "watching" time per day
  • maximum number of rooms a user can be in at any given time
  • maximum number of simultaneous streams a user can see at a time
  • kick person from chat after X minutes.

 

Limit features

  • prevent users from creating rooms
  • prevent users from sending private messages
  • prevent users from sending files to users or from uploading files to rooms
  • prevent users from making their cam/stream private
  • prevent users from buzzing
  • prevent users from streaming audio, video or both (text chat only mode)

 

With these limits you can create a web site where the visitors and the free members can not create rooms and they can only view one cam at a time for maximum 30 minutes/day, while paying members can create rooms, can watch up to 4 cams at a time and they have no daily "watching" limit!

 

 

Design Options

Change colors and fonts using an external CSS file

You can control the colors of the internal windows, the radius of the rounded corners, the font faces and font sizes inside the chat by editing an external CSS file. It's not 100% true CSS but you get the idea!

Change the background color or use an image as the background

As a web master you can change the background color of the chat or put your own image (containing your logo) as the background of the chat.

 

Resize it to fit your web site layout

The chat can be resized to fit any layout, the elements inside the chat automatically resize to fit the new area!

 

 

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Security Features

Encrypted everything

The room passwords are encrypted, and all the data (audio video text) exchanged between the users and the media server can be encrypted with rtmpe or ssl, secure data transfer at its finest.

Log everything

Every text chat discussion and room creation is logged in text files on the media server together with the ip of each user sending a text message or creating a room.

Protection against flooding and hot linking

AVChat 3 comes with special tricks that make any type of flooding of the text chat rooms hard and hot linking impossible.

Watermarked streams

We've run into situations in the past where users would watch someone in the chat and using screen sharing software would rebroadcast that image. That is not possible anymore as in AVChat 3 you can now watermark using an image all video streams. The watermark will show in the top left corner of any video stream!

Bad words, bad nicks, links and emails filter

The bad words filter automatically removes forbidden words from the text chat. The bad nicks filter can be used to prevent users from logging in with the username "admin" for example. When the links and emails filter is turned on any link/email typed in the text chat will be censored instead of being highlighted it.

No more ghost users

It frequently happened that the media server did not detect the fact that a user had disconnected, thus leaving that user hanging in the users list. This will happen no more as we've implemented some custom scripting to prevent that from happening in AVChat 3.

 

Limit ips from which admins can login

You can now limit the ips from which one can connect to the media server via the admin.swf interface!

 

You can read more about the security features implemented in AVChat 3 on our blog: AVChat 3 Security Features, Part 1

 

Rooms Management Features

The rooms management features have been greatly improved in AVChat 3. Permanent rooms can now be created directly from the chat software, rooms can now have a maximum users limits and in the future people will be able invite other users to their own rooms! In addition empty rooms can be automatically deleted.

avchat 3 rooms management panel

Be in more rooms at the same time

Users can join more than one room at a time. As a web master you have control over in how many rooms a user can be at the same time.

Make your own private and public rooms

Users can make their own private and public rooms. Of course the webmaster, the all powerful webmaster, can disable this functionality.

 

Drop users into certain rooms directly (no need to go trough the lobby)

Each room has it's own unique id. You can use this id in the configuration file so that users get dropped directly into that room when they log into AVChat 3.

 

Special Features for Admins

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Special admin icon and log in as hidden

Using the admin interface you can login as hidden or as visible using the normal male female couple icons or a special admin icon!

Kick and ban users

As an admin you can kick and ban users for bad behavior, ban specific ips, remove existing bans, etc... .

Live Total bandwidth usage display

While logged in in the admin area you can view in real time the bandwidth usage on the entire media server.

Access to lots of info about each user

As an admin you can view a lot of detailed information about each user in the chat room: ip, flash player version, etc... .

Join private rooms without passwords

Admins can join private rooms without needing the passwords. Just one of the joys of being an admin! The site owner can turn off this ability off!

View private sterams without needing permission

Admins canview private streams without needingpermission.The site owner can turn off this ability!

 

 

Other Neat Features

Record everything

You can record every audio/video stream coming from the users in separate .flv files. Each user gets its own .flv audio/video file each time he logs in and start sending audio and/or video. The newly crated .flv files will be stored on the media server and can be put on your web server for later downloading/viewing. More info in our blog post on this feature.

Banner friendly

You can place advertising (display banners, AdSense ads, video ads, text links, etc...) anywhere around the video chat software.

 

Zoom in/out video areas using the mouse wheel

Yes, how cool is that?!

External users list

AVChat 3 generates an external file containing a list of the rooms and users in each room which you can use to display on your web site the users (and number of users) logged in the video chat software at any moment and every available room (and type of room).