Simple Walkthrough

We only support Google Chrome at this point.

A video conference using CapCast can be setup using 3 simple steps.

Step 1: Open the CapCast Page URL. Currently the Capcast application server is hosted on an EC2 instance on Amazon Web Services. The IP of the server is 54.149.63.219. When the mentioned address is opened on a google chrome browser, the user gets a unique URL which is specific to the room created.

Step 2: Sharing the URL received. The URL received needs to be shared with participants. Hence the “initiator” creates a room and invites participants to the Room. The participants can in turn invite more participants by forwarding the same URL. Sample Generated URL: http://54.149.63.219/?serverIp=54.148.97.8&roomId=9f63-c672

Step 3: Open the URL shared. Users who wish to join the conversation, do so by clicking the URL received. It initiates a request to the user to share the microphone and the webcam. Upon accepting the request, the user is ready to take part in the conversation.

The text area on the right contains captions which are received from the participating peers. Currently CapCast supports speech detection in English only. This can be extended to detecting multiple languages as per the capability of the Google speech engine. Other future enhancements related to captioning are discussed in the Section 7. The next section focuses on laying down the architecture of CapCast.