VideoWhisper 2 Way Video Chat is a premium high definition video communication software designed for instant 1 on 1 online video conferencing. It’s a solution for conducting easy to setup face to face meetings without leaving your office or home. It’s the easiest and most cost-effective way to meet somebody and discuss one on one. Here are 12 ways to use this:

1. have meetings on short notice with individuals in faraway places
2. conduct sales presentations without traveling
3. manage employees remotely when you are not in the office
4. bring any partner or specialist employee virtually to any meeting you physically attend to
5. demonstrate products and software without traveling
6. train customers, partners and employees on remote locations
7. have employees work from home even if they are on another continent
8. communicate from many business airlines that provide internet while mobiles are not functional
9. talk face to face to new employees or business partners from far away locations before doing any travelling
10. communicate face to face from anywhere you find an internet connection for your laptop
11. remote professional consultations and advice
12. avoid dangerous or just boring locations and persons

Read more about the 2 Way Video Chat software…

This was originally posted on http://www.videowhisper.com/forum.php?ftid=58&t=Basic-install by rustynails and explains how to installing VideoWhisper Video Conference and all required servers on your Windows computer.

1} A computer
WINDOWS XP

2} A HOME WEB SERVER
I used XAMPP XAMPP.org
Placed in same folder as program files
C:\xampp

3} JAVA JDK SE
Download from http://java.sun.com/
placed in programs
C:\Program Files\Java

Use installer
and set JAVA_HOME

My setup

NAME JAVA_HOME
VALUE C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_13
Don’t use ” \bin ” on end for setting JAVA_HOME

Name JAVA_VERSION
VALUE 1.6

ADD to “path”
;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_13\bin

TIP: utube has a tutorial for this.
key words
” Installing the Java Development Kit for Windows ”

4} RED5 flash server Final Version 7 java6 with installer
Download at RED5 site

Placed in same folder as programs.
my set up
C:\Red5

Set up RED5, run test page shut RED5 off and then load
video whisper.
RED5 Test address
http://127.0.0.1:5080/

5} Download Video whisper stand alone free script APPROX 431 KB

Video whisper is placed in
C:\xampp\htdocs\Videowhisper

Set your ip address in settings.php
C:\xampp\htdocs\vc_php\settings.php

M ine <?
$rtmp_server=”rtmp://my-ip-address/videowhi sper”;
?>

Tip
The name of the folder you place in XAMPP is “vc_php”
IT’s the folder vc_php/contents
not the folder vc_php/vc_php/contents

6} Also the videowhisper_red5 script APPROX 17 KB
MY set up
C:\Red5\webapps\videowhisper

Tip
The name of the folder you place in webapps is videowhisper
It’s the folder inside the extracted videowhisper_red5

Next
Delete this part from RED5 web.XML. You will be disconected
from server if you don’t.

<param-name>log4jConfigLocation</param- name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/log4j.properties< /param-value>
</context-param>

The Location is
C:\Red5\webapps\videowhisper\WEB-INF\web.XML

Once you’re done restart RED5
Refresh XAMPP
Type in your IP adress
http://your-ip-address/vc_php/

To Test locally
http://127.0.0.1/vc_php/

VideoGirls BiZ offers premium red5 hosting plans for video chat scripts. The Red5 setup is 100% managed so you do not have anything to worry about as on vps hosts where you have to install each application yourself and restart the service or even configure, upgrade, install new linux software trough the shell.

Premium videochat script hosting plans includes:

• Unlimited RTMP hosting on Red5
  That means streaming can use as much bandwidht as available per plan and there are no limitations for the number of simultaneous connections (other that server load).
• Dedicated IP
• Managed setup of Red5 application
• 1 Free Script Installation
  Limited to datetopia, videogirls, videowhisper scripts only.
• CPanel
• Setup of RTMP application

You can also check Red5 Hosting on Videowhisper.

To test the video conference plugin just register an account on this website and click the video conference link from the right panel.

Video Conference, Video Chat and Instant File Sharing Plugin for WordPress

+ Read more about the Video Conference WordPress Plugin on the VideoWhisper website
+ Download the Free WordPress Video Conference Edition (requires registering a free account)

WordPress  Integration

VideoWhisper.com  setup a simple integration that uses the WordPress username to login existing users into the simple php only version of their video conference software – the edition easiest to customize and integrate with any website. If the user is not logged into WordPress a warning message is shown and the visitor can click that to get back to the main WordPress website for registration/login.

VideoWhisper also  included a plugin that provides a linking widget. You can use that or directly add a link to “http://www.yoursite.com/videowhisper_conference/” .

Installation Instructions

1. Copy contents of com_videowhisper_conference\fms_applications in zip file to your applications folder in your fms installation folder. This step is not required if you use their video conference rental with hosting or managed rmtp hosting plans.
2. Copy the files from the zip file including folder structure to your public website location.
3. Fill the fms application path in videowhisper_conference/settings.php.
4. Enable the plugin and link widget or directly add the link to the videowhisper_conference folder.