Today we released the 1.0.5 update for the Gmail voice and video chat software. All current installations will begin an automatic update within the next 24 hours. If you do not want to wait, you can visit http://mail.google.com/videochat and re-run the installer.
You can use your Gmail account to find out what version is currently installed. Simply go to the Gmail Settings page and look under the "Chat" tab. You will see the plugin version under the "Learn more" link, in small type.
Here's what's new in version 1.0.5:
- On Windows, enabled sending and receiving video for CPUs without the SSE2 extensions (such as Athlon XP and Pentium III). Due to the lower processing power of these CPUs, the resolution of the sent video will be reduced.
- On Mac, added support for the macam USB camera driver library, enabling hundreds of branded and generic webcams for mac users. Some work better than others; depending on the camera, you may experience low performance or errors when using macam. For best results, we recommend having only a single macam device attached, and closing Gmail before plugging or unplugging macam devices.
- On Mac, changed automatic updates to no longer prompt the user to shut down the browser.
- Fixed several issues on both platforms where the plugin could crash during or while ending a call.
- Fixed an issue on certain Sony Vaio notebooks where the web browser would crash during call setup.
- Fixed an issue on Mac where the plugin would crash during call setup if the installed version of QuickTime was very old.
- Fixed an issue on Mac where old instances of the plugin would still appear in the Activity Monitor.
The fixes in this version should resolve the vast majority of the "my webcam doesn't work with Gmail voice and video" issues. If you're on 1.0.5 and still having a problem, please report it on the Gmail voice and video chat forums. As always, feel free to email me directly as well.
6 comments:
when is GNU/Linux support expected?
Desktop client integration pretty please.
It would be nice to have Linux support
Fix the product search links from this page.
Thank you! The Mac client was unuseable, now I have hope.
The XP client has been fabulous.
Could you post on what we should use for a notification/request solution? Do you recommend installing Google Talk just to get notification of chat requests?
PS. I'm so happy to find this blog, you're the only source of GVC info out there ...
It runs on Athlon XP now :) Thank's Google's guys !
When there will be file transfer ?
or new Windows client with Webcam support.
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