Video Consultation 1.68

It comes as a Joomla and PHP-only component to be integrated into working websites.

It was designed for few to many 2 way moderated video communication. Moderators control what participant is displayed on main screen (speaker) and can also add an additional participant (inquirer) to ask questions or assist.

Participants can change their public status (i.e. request to speak), upload and download room files, text and video chat.

It comes in many variants, so the developer can integrate it with his environment, using RTMP platforms like Wowza Media Server, Flash Media Interactive Server and Red5.

Here are some key features of "Video Consultation":

Usages:
· Video consultations where participants get professional advice and information (from a lawyers, doctors, financial advisors or other experts)
· Video trainings where students from various places can participate in live video interactive trainings with no traveling and accomodation costs
· Video seminars / webinars where groups of students meet regularly under the guidance of a tutor for study and discussion
· Online research communities
· Online deliberative polling combines small-group discussions involving large numbers of participants with random sampling of public opinion
· Interactive e-learning
· E-participation enables citizens to connect with one another and with their elected representatives
· Civic dialogue where people participate in public intentional and purposeful discussion about civic issues, policies, or decisions of consequence to their lives, communities, and society
· Video collaboration brings project teams, workgroups, committees, partners at different sites together for a meeting where they can speak in a moderated way and share documents

User Features:
· Instant video consultation room and invite link generator
· 1 High definition fixed video panel, unlimited private video panels
· Fullscreen button for any video panel
· Streaming settings (select hardware, adapt bandwidth to connection)
· Link parsing (urls, twitter)
· Emoticons
· Enable/Disable sound on new text message
· Timers (used time/available time)
· Logout
· Watch privately an user from that list
· Show/Hide panels from tool bar icons
· Private Chat
· Reset panel positions and sizes
· Set status (Available, Request, Away, Busy)

Moderator Features:
· Set Speaker (stream to see on main video panel)
· Set Inquirer (opens a public secondary video panel for a second user to speak/ask)
· Kick User
· Broadcast using external rtmp server / broadcasting tool (i.e. Adobe Flash Media Live Econder)
· Change room background (pick background from file sharing list)
· Stop streams

Webmaster Features:
· Skin based interface (all graphics including logo, icons, buttons, panels, emoticons, background are loaded from external images and can be changed)
· Translation engine that allows translation of most important texts
· Enable/disable access to streaming settings
· Enable/disable access to advanced settings like fps, resolution (including NTSC & PAL DVD quality that automatically changes aspect ratio)
· Enable/disable webcam access
· Enable/disable access to extra videos for regular users
· Setup default, maximum bandwidth
· Setup webcam resolution and frames per second (FPS)
· Setup microphone rate (i.e. 8, 11, 22, 44)
· Session timing and control from PHP (can be used to setup pay per view, pay per minute systems)
· Enable/disable timer
· Set HTML welcome to chat message
· Set room users limit
· Enable/disable chat panel for regular users
· Enable/disable file sharing panel for regular users
· Enable/disable participants list for regular users
· Enable/disable file upload for regular users
· Enable/disable file deletion for regular users
· Enable/disable webcam audio
· Enable/disable webcam video
· Enable/disable webcam publishing with external encoder
· Filter bad words (regex)

Integrations:
· PHP Only
· Joomla Component
· WordPress + Plugin & Widget
· Elgg Module
· phpBB Edition
· AVS (Adult Video Script)

RTMP Platform Integrations:
· Wowza Media Server
· Flash Media Interactive Server
· Red5

Requirements:

· lash Media Interactive Server (FCS1.5 -FMIS3.5)
· Red5 - Open Source Server (v0.7-0.9+ with JDK6)
· Wowza Media Server (v2 with JDK6)
· PHP
· MySQL
· error_reporting E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE (PHP settings)
· short_open_tag On (PHP settings)

Limitations:

· The software provides the source code of the integrations, but not of the Flash technology used to render the video conference itself.