AVChat 2.0 is a very powerful flash video chat software to be used by web sites with lots of users.

It comes packed with lots of features including private messages, rooms support and and admin section, and runs directly in the browser.

AVChat 2.0 works the same in IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera, on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Best suited for:

• dating/matchmaking web sites


• forums


• large user bases


• whenever there is a need to jump from one room to another by pressing just a button


• many to many chat scenarios


• secure live video/audio/text chat over the Internet or Intranet

Features:

Runs in Flash Player 8 or newer
Your users do not have to download any special plugin as AVChat 2.0 runs in Flash Player 8 which is installed on over 95% of the computers connected to the internet. AVChat 2.0 will run directly in the users browser (IE,Firefox, Safari on Windows/Mac/Linux).

Live video and audio directly from your web cam/microphone
AVChat 2.0 provides live audio and video transfer between users. As a webmaster you have full control over the quality of the audio and video and the bandwidth used by each stream.

AVChat 2.0 is using the video/audio capturing capabilities of the Flash Player in conjunction with Flash Media Server. The audio/video is first captured and encoded by AVChat running in the users browser, then it it sent to the Flash Media Server from where it is routed to all the users subscribed to that audio/video stream.

View and hear 2,3 or more video/audio streams (persons) at the same time
The new interface in AVChat 2.0 allows users to view as many video streams as they want. The number of video streams they can see at one time can be limited by modifying the configuration file.

Zoom in/out video areas using the mouse wheel
All video areas can be zoomed in up to 7x and zoomed out up to 0.5x by using the wheel on your mouse.

Full control over the video and audio quality
AVChat 2.0 uses a .xml file to load the web cam and microphone setting to use. Within that .xml file you can change: picture resolution and picture quality, maximum bandwidth to use, frames/second and keyframes/second and audio quality.

By default AVChat 2.0 comes with 6 video/audio profiles (.xml files) to choose from, 2 for 56k, 2 for 128k and 2 for 256kbits/s video bandwidth scenarios. The online demo uses the 128k-low-motion-high-picture-quality-one!

Multiple public/private rooms support
Users can create their own room and password protect it so that only selected audience can chat with them using text, or see or hear them using audio and video.

Default rooms can be created by the webmaster
As a webmaster you can create default rooms (public or private) and use the configuration file to drop people into certain rooms. Also you can block people from joining or creating other rooms

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 in in AVChat 2.0

User list with identification icons.
The user list has several functions: display the gender of the user/ display the username of the user, display a cam icon besides the user if he is sending video, display a speaker icon besides the user if he is sending video, show a small message besides each user who is watching your cam

[Buzz] and [View Profile] buttons
You can now use the [Buzz] button to buzz someone. Also a new button labeled "View Profile" is now present, which can be configured to take you to the users profile.

Automatic "who's watching me" function
Besides each user in the users list that is watching your video/audio stream, a text message: "views my cam" is displayed.

Admin Section with kick, ban and ip view
Using the admin section you can view the ip of each user, you can kick users, you can ban users by their ip's, and you can delete rooms.

Admins can log in as hidden
When using the admin interface to log in by default one can select between being a hidden or visible admin. You can change this in the configuration file and only allow for visible admins for example. Also admins have by default access to private rooms, but this can be changed also.

Male, female and couple genders
At the request of numerous clients AVChat 2.0 now allows people to log in using 3 different genders: male , female and couple. The couple gender can be disabled from the configuration file.

Many integration options with CMS systems.
After integrating the AVChat config file with your content management system, you can set different values for each option in the configuration file based on the level of the user. These being said you can :

• prevent some users from sending/receiving video/audio


• give only limited video time to certain users


• prevent some from viewing more than 1 video/audio stream at a time


• drop certain users in certain rooms 

AVChat 2.0 comes standard with a Joomla component, but it can be integrated with any other CMS system.

Move and resize the flash interface elements
All the interface elements can be dragged using the mouse, and can be resized by clicking and dragging the red lower right corners.

In addition the interface elements automatically position themselves and resize according to the size of the flash area available to AVChat in the HTML web page. Also the video areas can be zoomed in/out using the wheel on your mouse.

Private messages in separate windows
This is a feature that has been requested for a very long time by our customers. Whenever you send a private message to someone , a small new text chat window opens up. All the private discussion between you and that user will be taken to that window inside the AVChat interface.

Screen Sharing using third party software
You can share your desktop screen with other people (or even send prerecorded movies as your web cam feed) just as if you were sharing your web cam, by using a third party software named SplitCam. Contact us for more info on this topic.

Secure encrypted data transfer ( text/video/audio )
All the data exchanged between the users and the Flash Media Server can be encrypted using SSL certificates. For this you will most likely will need a dedicated FMS server and a valid SSL certificate. Contact us for more info on this topic.

Text chat logs

• All private/public text chat is kept in logs (text files) on the FMS server for later analysis. Each room gets its own text log each day.


• Can be easily translated into other languages


• All the texts used in the 2 flash interfaces (user&admin) can be changed in an external .xml file that can be edited with any text editor. This way AVChat 2.0 supports any language, even right to left languages like Arabic. Special characters like º,þ,ã,î,etc... are also supported!

Mambo and Joomla (1.x and 1.5) components
If your website runs on Joomla or Mambo the script includes AVChat as Mambo and Joomla components and they integrate seamlessly with your users database.

Drupal 5.x and 4.7.x modules
If your website runs on Drupal, AVChat 2.0 is also wrapped in a Drupal module. Once you install the module in your website the users will have the same username in the site and in the chat and you can set several permissions based on user groups.