Video Chat is a web-based communication
application developed in Python scripting language. With this
application, users can chat via live video streaming like that of
Facebook, Yahoo, Gmail, etc. This application establishes the face to
face connection between two users connected via internet. It can be used
by anyone to have video chat with friends, family, etc.
The source code of this project is
relatively short and easy to understand. You can access the complete
source code of Video Chat App from the download links in this post.
Below, I’ve briefly introduced the project abstract with scopes,
features and source code files.
About Video Chat Python App:
Although the technology has crossed the
horizon, it is still in a developing phase. With the development of
technology, the means of communication are being enhanced. Each day the
communication system is becoming much faster, reliable and effective.
One of the most popular and reliable systems of communication is video
chat on Skype, Facebook, Yahoo, etc., through internet.
There are several methods available for communication such as voice call, text chat, e-mail, mail
etc. Each of them is capable of passing the message either thought
voice or text, but they can’t bring two separate faces together. With
this proposed Video Chat app face to face chatting is easy.
Features:
Listed below are the main features of Video Chat application:
- It facilitates the users for live video streaming so that real audio-video communication is established.
- The application has four scripts: client script, server script, video feed script and video socket script.
- The application can’t work offline. It is useless without a reliable internet connection.
- The application can’t establish a connection itself but assists other media in effective communication.
- Video Chat Application utilizes web conferencing for video streaming.
There are four files in Video Chat app project:
- Client Script: to open socket; initialize video socket plus normal socket; connect sockets; send/receive code
- Server Script: to open server-side socket; transfer data; listen to incoming chat messages, wait for client response
- Video Feed Script: to initialize thread; CAM video capture; set data; show image/video
- Video Socket Script: to manage the transfer of fixed size frame strings over usual sockets
As this Video Chat project is supposed
to perform video streaming along with instant messaging, its working
process depends on web conference and push technology. Push technology
is based on internet communication in which request for a transaction is
initiated by central server or publisher.
Synchronous Conferencing and Instant
Messaging are the typical examples of push server. Web Conferencing is a
web service to allow conferencing event to be shared with remote
location.
Conclusion:
The proposed Video Chat app can be used
as a communication system for face to face interaction. Due to growing
use of internet based communication system, the scope of similar
applications is getting bigger. It can be used from anywhere by anyone
having internet connection.