Instant Video Chat Room Plugin

We use elgg to run multiple webcam chat sites and recently implemented a quick solution that allows us to create video chat rooms instantly as needed (hosted for free).

A user simply has to add their room name to end of the url "http://www.omgchat.com/room/"

 

Live Examples:

http://www.omgchat.com/room/chatroom-plugins

http://www.omgchat.com/room/elgg

http://www.omgchat.com/room/free-video-conference

 

What Next?

We are currently trying to create a plugin out of this feature and make it available to the community.

(More soon)

Please reply about ideas, suggestions, potential uses...

  • Some additional information about these video chat rooms ...

    Room Features:

    • 12 Webcam Slots - Up to 12 people can simultaneously broadcast audio/video at once.
    • Chat Box - Thousands of users can communicate through text in the chat box.
    • Desktop Sharing - Let people remotely see what you see on your computer.
    • Youtube - Share Youtube videos with everyone in the room.
    • Group Whiteboard - Multiple users can draw on one whiteboard (great for collaborating).
    • Document Sharing - Share various documents with mutliple people.

    Administration:

    • Moderators - Creators of room are given moderator rights (/oper, /ban, /banlist, /broadcast, etc...).
    • Power Sharing - Moderators can give rights to other chat participants.
  • how many advertise is there?

    is it possible to connect tinychat to elgg username/public name with api?

    is it possible to creat chatroom as elgg object, save it and display it in riverdashboard?

    a list of chatroom name available on own elgg site with title or topic simple to join

    have it has popup to conotinue to navigate

    :-) just simle ideas

     

  • This looks like a great IDEA! 

     

    Maybe, you can make as user friendly as tiny chat??

  • Raaj, I would love to see a pluggin based on Tinychat.

    I beleive it's Tinychat's warning that displays when select cam / start broadcasting is clicked.
    'No nudity.... etc'
    Personally, I would prefer this message to be along the lines of 'No inapropriate behaviour' as my community will be of all ages, and I wouldn't like parents being worried that thier children may be given ideas about googling nudity cams...

  • @lord55 some great suggestions...will try to keep those in mind.

    @elggfan I can't legally modify tinychat.swf, so that notice will have to remain intact. Sorry.

    lol @ no nudity on google!

     

    Here is a list of a few features we recently tested out. I added the locations just in case you wanted to see how we implemented them.

     

    UPDATE: Just added the ability to embed instantly created rooms on your own site.

    Location: Chat Room Page

     

    UPDATE: Adds a custom chat room link to all user's profiles (omgchat.com/room/[member-name])

    Location: User Profiles

     

    UPDATE: List of recently created rooms sorted by "time created". The list auto-refreshes every 5 seconds to give up to date room creation information (time created in "minutes ago" format and country of the user that created the chat room).

    Location: Custom Index (loggedin)

     

  • Raaaj, I'm really looking forward to seeing this plug-in. Thanks.

    BTW, Tinychat have now changed the message to 'inappropriate bradcasts may be banned'
    This is great, IMHO, as it would make sites more family friendly.

     

  • @elggfan Yeah, we are still trying to see how best to implement all available tools.

    UPDATE: Widget with form to create a new chat room and list of 8 recently created chat rooms.

    Location: Home Page

  • UPDATE: New listings for "Most Active Chat Rooms" (sorted by active users/users on cam) have a webcam captured image of a random person in the chat room, number of chat users, and number of people on camera (Cached/Cron).

    Location: Chat Room Selection Page (http://www.omgchat.com/pg/pages/view/23/)

     

    It looks pretty good IMO but I still have to integrate some things with Elgg. More soon...