{"id":3476,"date":"2011-06-21T08:09:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T15:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2011-06-21T08:10:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T15:10:01","slug":"pc-video-conferencing-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/pc-video-conferencing-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"PC Video Conferencing in the Year 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Intel&#8217;s custom flavor of H.263 <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=I263\">cleverly named I.263<\/a>? I think I have finally found an application that used it thanks to a <a href=\"http:\/\/games.multimedia.cx\/acquisition-log-2011-06-18\/\">recent thrift shop raid<\/a>&#8212; Intel Video Phone:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/intel-video-phone-software-cd.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Intel Video Phone software CD-ROM\" width=\"450\" height=\"197\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/intel-video-phone-software-cd.jpg 450w, https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/intel-video-phone-software-cd-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The root directory of the disc has 2 copies of an intro.avi video. One copy uses Intel Indeo 3 video and PCM audio. The other uses I.263 video and an undetermined (presumably Intel-proprietary) audio codec &#8212; RIFF id 0x0402 at a bitrate of 88 kbits\/sec for stereo, 22 kHz audio. The latter video looks awful but is significantly smaller (like 4 MB vs. 25 MB).<\/p>\n<p>This is the disc marked as &#8220;Send it to a friend&#8230;&#8221;. Here&#8217;s the way this concept was supposed to operate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You buy an Intel Video Phone Camera Pack (<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/19991128234034\/http:\/\/www.intel.com\/pccamera\/retailer.htm\">forgotten page courtesy of the Internet Archive<\/a>) which includes a camera and 2 CDs.<\/li>\n<li>You install the camera and video phone software on your computer.<\/li>\n<li>You send the other CD to the person whom you want to be able to see your face when you&#8217;re teleconferencing with them.<\/li>\n<li>The other party installs the software.<\/li>\n<li>The 2 of you may make an internet phone call presumably using commodity PC microphones for the voice component; the person who doesn&#8217;t have a camera is able to see the person who does have a camera.<\/li>\n<li>In a cunning viral\/network marketing strategy, Intel encourages the other party to buy the physical hardware as well so that they may broadcast their own visage back to the other person.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you need further explanation, the intro lady does a great job:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IMbZAy7kZzE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I suspect I.263 was the video codec driving this since Indeo 3 would probably be inappropriate for real time video applications due to its vector quantizing algorithm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studying Intel Video Phone, videoconferencing software from 1999<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta 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