The new setting, called “video chat improvements,” UPS not only the size of the video chat window, but also its resolution. The size difference between the old and new is considerable, both in the window of the person you’re talking about, and the preview of your webcam that appears in the lower right corner.
In addition to Gmail, the video chat feature works in iGoogle and Orkut.
In his blog post announcing the feature, Google said that the upgraded version of the talk “free valuable resources in your computer” during the conversation. To do this, using hardware-accelerated video decoding to take some work outside of the computer processor of a user – the same of Adobe been doing in the latest versions of Flash video player.
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