
AVChat 2 and AVConference are compatible with both FMS 2 & 3 and Red5 .
AVChat 2.1 full specifications
End User Interface Specs:
- Webcam and microphone automatic detection (best detection script)
- Google Talk like emote icons (smileys)
- The name of the devices used for capturing audio/video are displayed
- [change] buttons for changing the video/audio hardware input device used
- On/Off controls for both received and sent audio/video streams.
- Users list with identification icons: male,female,couple, admin,has camera,sends audio, blocked
- Automatic "Who's watching me" display
- Block users
- [View profile] button
- Rooms support with rooms list, join room and create room functions
- Private (password protected) and public rooms support
- Text chat formatting (bold,italic,underline,color,size)
- URL highlighting (When you type in a URL it is underlined and colored in blue)
- Private messages (send messages to only one user) in separate windows
- Public messages (messages seen by all users in a room)
- Bad words filter
- Bad nicks filter
- Time notification when banned ("You have x more minutes to wait.")
- Unicode characters support for the text chat, user names, interface texts, etc... (AVChat thus supports all languages)
- Video areas with automatic resolution detection and resize
- One person can view 2, 3 or more video streams
- Zoom in the video areas up to 7x using the mouse wheel
- Zoom out the video areas up to 0.5 x using the mouse wheel
- Drag and drop all user interface elemnts
- Resize all user interface elements by dragging the red corners
- Layout automatically adjusts with the size of the flash chat area
- Cache buster for all the external config files
- Error messages for connection issues with the FMS server
- Ability to change background color (blue default)
- Ability to specify background image and bg image transparency
- Tooltips (translatable) on most of the buttos
- Buzz and Block buttons for buzzing/blocking persons
- The interface text can be translated to any language using a .xml (text) file.
- Supports secure audio/video/text chatting by using SSL certificates
- Screen sharing support by using third party desktop software
- external .xml rooms/users list (new in AVChat 2.1)
- external .txt current number of logged in users list (new in 2.1)
- Ability to record every audio/video stream from the users in a separate file
- Ability to disable the gender option from the login screen (new in 2.1)
- Ability to disable the kick,ban,view PM messages for the admins (new in 2.1)
- Prevents a user from logging in 2 times fromt he same computer. (new in 2.2)
- Text chat mode only (new in 2.2)
- Toggle links highlighting/censoring (new in 2.2)
- Ban & Kick messages shown in the public text chat (new in 2.2)
- Clicking on a username in the public textchat adds that username to the public text chat input box (new in 2.2)
Administrator Interface specs:
- Kick users
- Ban ip's (1 hour, 1 day, 1 week,etc...)
- Full access to private rooms (no password required)
- Option to be Visible or Invisible (can be disabled)
- Enhanced users list with ip display
- Ehanced rooms list with id display (for dropping users into certain rooms)
What you can configure in the external configuration files:
- Interface texts (used to change the language)
- Width and height of the flash chat area in the HTML page, background color
- Text chat font size
- Flash Media Server connection string
- Bad words list ( .xml file)
- Turn on/off bad words filter
- Bad nicks list ( .xml file)
- Video quality:resolution, fps, kfps, picture quality, bandwidth, sound quality, sound silence level ( .xml files)
- Username and gender
- Can the username/gender be changed at the login screen, on/off.
- Autostart the users web cam/mic on/off
- Automatically start viewing other all other web cams when logging in on/off
- Minimum number of characters for usernames
- Private messages allowed on/off
- Url to the .xml file containing the video/audio quality settings
- Should the text chat window contain timestamps
- Disable the ability of users to create new rooms
- Limit video time/day in seconds
- Limit frames per second for incoming video
- max number of web cams one can view at one time
- Allow people to send audio and video
- The id of the room to drop users into
- Disable the [Create Room] button
- Disable the [Join Room] button
- Disable the couple gender
- URL template for profile URL's
- URL of the background image
- Transparency level of the background image
- How is the background image going to scale (no scale, fit, tile)
- How many seconds the [Buzz] button will be disabled after using it once
- Allow/disallow admins to log in as invisible, to kick,ban and view private PM's (new in 2.1)
- Add rooms (via the settings .asc config file that goes on the Flash Media Server)
- Number of previous chat lines a user will see when joining a room (via the FMS .asc config file)
- Disable the gender option (new in 2.1)
- How is the users list sorted (webcam on top, alphabetically) (new in 2.1)
- URL of the script generating the users list file (new in 2.1)
- Don't let the user login teh chat (good for integrations) (new in 2.2)
- Maximum chars in a line for the text chat (prevents spamming) (new in 2.2)
- censor links toggle (new in 2.2)
You can also view a comparison with AVConference.
