A Low Cost Multiparty H.264 Based Video Conference Solution for Corporate Environment

One of the major challenges for video collaboration lies in video conferencing in low bandwidth and low cost. In this paper we discuss about a server less desktop based video conferencing application that has been built around a highly bandwidth efficient H.264 video compression technology. The proposed solution offers a low cost multiparty video conferencing solution suitable for corporate environment over multicast backbone and a mechanism of providing user a manual control over the transmission rate depending on the available bandwidth.