Skype Group Video Calling Beta Is Out.

Skype Group Video Calling  http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Today Skype released the beta version of it Skype Group Video calling we mentioned a few days ago. The Skype Group Video Calling allows groups up to five individuals to join in avideo conference call. Now people will be able to get both grand Mas online to show off new baby walking, if uncles and aunts are good they will be able to add them as well.
The beta has following New Features;

* Up to 5-way group video call
* Redesigned calling experience
* Improved video snapshots gallery
* Improved browser plugins performance on some websites.
* Reduced false positives on browser plugin phone number recognition.

To make group video calls, you need to download and install the beta (download link is provided below) and also the people you’re calling will also need to be running the same version. So make sure to inform your conference members to download and install the Skype Group Video Calling beta.
But after all this might not be free like free voice and two-way video calling. Somewhere in the future, they might start charging for the service.
You can download the beta from  here.

Multi Video Conference with continuous presence On Asterisk, With MCU Media Server, Now A VmWare Image

Multi Video Conference on Asterisk snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Asterisk News let us know about this bit of news on MCU Media Server. We ahve implemented this on a virtual machine on one of our Linux boxes where we load all the test servers and have been pretty pleased with the performance. The project has been a bit dormant for a while and I hope the VMWare image release is a sign of new activities because we really like to utilize the project in our projects.
The project summery on sourceforge describes the project as

Media Server with the following capabilities:-Multi Video Conference with continuous presence.-SWF playback-Flash Video broadcasting-Sailfin SIP application with Web UI interface.

The VMWare image is 1GB in size and if you are on a slow netwrk (Are there people still on slow networks?) and if you have any questions on how to get it going, email the project owner Sergio Garcia Murillo (Get the email address from the project site below)
MCU Media Server via ventureVoIP