To date, offering integrated chat Google is available via Gmail, and although it allows video calling, still pretty basic software, which offers video calls for a quality non-fluctuating levels of rivals such as Skype. But now things could change, because it stands to get a direct integration with the web browser Chrome that would allow video conferencing, chat and much more, with a higher quality product to the Google same.
It seems that Google has decided to focus on real-time communications, integrating within its web browser Google Chrome, the ability to chat, make calls, video calls, using the same tools used for web browsing. Of course the project is broader, in fact, thanks to the possibility WebRTC infrastructure which uses Javascript API specifically designed to work in synergy with the Javascript engine to be integrated on other web browsers such as Mozilla and Opera, so to make a common platform and allow everyone to communicate with each other, regardless of which web browser is implemented.
Depending on the bandwidth available then, Google There are two audio codecs to use, ISACA if the internet bandwidth is wide enough and iLBC when you have to do with a slow connection. As for the video, Google relies on its proprietary codec V8, which allows performance in line with other codecs depending on the available bandwidth.
