Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs • Hacker News Board

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#31

Post by zapperen » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 3:12 PM UTC

Go Telenor!

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#32

Post by barnslig » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 3:21 PM UTC

https://palava.tv/

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#33

Post by eps » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 3:45 PM UTC

Getting an empty dark gray page on iOS.

I realize Mobile Safari may not be a supported browser, but a graceful failure with some sort of explanation wouldn't hurt, would it?

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#34

Post by abcd_f » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 3:47 PM UTC

  Failed to get camera access.
  Please grant camera access to use appear.in

I have no idea how.

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#35

Post by matthiasb » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 3:55 PM UTC

Tried it. Asked my friend to try on his iPhone. He installed Chrome as recommended but Chrome on iPhone is not supported.

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#36

Post by tonyg » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 4:06 PM UTC

Using firefox (26.0) on OS X works just fine. I get prompted to share my camera and microphone.

Firefox 26 on Debian Linux, however, never shows the prompt. The appear.in page just asks me to use the menu that should have (but didn't) appear.

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#37

Post by Nux » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 4:12 PM UTC

No luck from GP's Firefox OS, but seems to be working on my CentOS workstation. Good job!

LE: I'm actually really, really impressed by this. It's bloody great, good job to these guys and to whoever works on similar projects.

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#38

Post by dagingaa » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 4:14 PM UTC

tonyg wrote: post #36

Using firefox (26.0) on OS X works just fine. I get prompted to share my camera and microphone. Firefox 26 on Debian Linux, however, never shows the prompt. The appear.in page just asks me to use the menu that should have (but didn't) appear.

This is unfortunately a bug internally in Firefox which affects certain builds of Linux. See related bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/12170...

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#39

Post by dagingaa » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 4:16 PM UTC

eps wrote: post #33

Getting an empty dark gray page on iOS. I realize Mobile Safari may not be a supported browser, but a graceful failure with some sort of explanation wouldn't hurt, would it?

Developer @ appear.in here. For lack of better ways of communicating, at which page did you experience this? We tested it on our own devices but couldn't replicate.

Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

#40

Post by dagingaa » Sat, Feb 01, 2014, 4:19 PM UTC

Nux wrote: post #37

No luck from GP's Firefox OS, but seems to be working on my CentOS workstation. Good job! LE: I'm actually really, really impressed by this. It's bloody great, good job to these guys and to whoever works on similar projects.

We have some guys working on FirefoxOS at our office actually (Telenor Digital does many things). We tested appear.in on a recent build of master, and it worked! Hopefully it will make it out to consumers soon. You can track support through this issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750011