Camfrog Client 5.3 for Windows is now available for download.  Camfrog 5.3 allows users to buy virtual gifts for rooms.  The top 3 rooms that are currently online with the most gift points appear at the top of the video chat room list.

We now also have new video controls that appear when mousing over your local and remote video window. You can change your video size, change your profile, pause your video, or add text over video by clicking the buttons on your local video window.  In remote video windows you can change the video size, view the users profile, and IM the user easily. Please see the screenshot above to see how it works.

We have also added birthday notifications in the contact list.  You can turn this off by going to the Camfrog settings and choosing “Your profile” if you don’t want anyone to know your birthday.  If someone in a chat room or in your contact list has a birthday today they will have a special birthday icon next to their user icon.

In this new version the Camfrog file transfer system has been improved and we have also reverted to one main “call” button in IM windows.  When you call someone you are automatically placed into audio call mode, then you can press “Play” in your local video window to begin broadcasting video.  IM history is now on by default for all users.

The complete software change list for 5.3 is available here.

Download Camfrog 5.3 (Windows)

Room Virtual Gifts List

Camfrog Video Chat 5.2 5th Year Anniversary Edition is now available to download.  Please visit our download page to upgrade your client.

Version 5.2 changes include new one-on-one audio and video synchronization.  This means that your audio and video should be in perfect sync when doing a one-on-one video chat.

Download Camfrog Client 5.2 (Windows)

More Changes and Upgrades:

• - Pause your video in a chat room and you are now broadcasting a frozen video frame instead of just a blank white video window. To test this join a video chat room, then pause your local video window. If the person you are viewing is paused and using this new version then you can see their still frozen video frame too.
• - From your contact list go to the actions/settings menus, then choose “video” to change your default video window sizes to “small” if you prefer. Many users requested that they wanted to be able to choose small sized video windows in rooms as default with the webcam auto-organizer. Now you can do this with the new version. You can also disable the webcam auto-organizer and turn on “Sticky Video Windows” if you prefer the old Camfrog 3.X video window style.
• - Video Chatting one-on-one should now work 100% of the time with the new version. The old client versions could rarely fail in extreme circumstances, but after a lot of hard work we have figured out how to make this version 100% reliable. If you find your private video chat is still failing somehow and both users are using this new beta please let us know so we can investigate.
• - If you are a free user you’ll notice when you join a room your remote video windows are now small even if the room is in “recommended” or “super” mode. Don’t worry, you can still view large video. Mouse over the remote video window and press the enlarge icon to make the remote video window large again. We made this change so users with small screens can choose to see others with small video windows to save screen real estate.
• - Join a video chat room and right click your local video window to “resize all windows” simultaneously.
• - Go to the “view” menu in the chat room window to choose to “highlight friends”. If “highlight friends” is activated and one of your friends from your profile is in a room his or her name will then be highlighted.
• - New language packs have been added: Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional.

Camfrog Mac 1.8 is now available for download.  This new version adds one-on-one video chat compatibility with the most recent Camfrog Windows version, adds more vibrant colors, uses less CPU, and includes some bug fixes and stability enhancements.

If you experience any crashes or major problems with this new client version please go to the “Camfrog Video Chat” menu and choose “Generate file for technical support”.

Download Camfrog Mac 1.8

A new Camfrog Mac version with Windows 5.2 one-on-one compatibility is on the way.  We hope to release something in the next couple of weeks.  Thank you for your patience.

Camfrog 5.2.167 is now available for download with some brand new features.

Join a video chat room and right click your local video window to “resize all windows” simultaneously, you can also go to the “view” menu in the chat room window to choose to “highlight friends”.  If “highlight friends” is activated and one of your friends from your profile is in a room his or her name will then be highlighted.  This new beta version also has a lot of miscellaneous stability and efficiency enhancements.

Download Camfrog 5.2.167 Beta (Windows)

Please report any problems on the blog or to our helpdesk.

Happy Holidays!

Camfrog Client 5.2.162 Beta (Windows) is now available for beta testing.  With this new beta if your computer cannot handle our new video rendering system you will be switched back to our old system.  Please test and post your feedback on the blog or to our helpdesk.

Download Camfrog Client 5.2.162 Beta (Windows)

NEW – Please note we have updated the version number today.  Please test this newest beta version released December 3rd with some stability improvements.

Camfrog Mobile 1.1 for Windows Mobile is now available for download.  Version 1.1 adds emoticon support to instant messages,  different font sizes, vibrate notifications for new messages, and an auto-dial option where the program will try to establish a data connection over your mobile network.

Download Camfrog Mobile 1.1

Starting December 1st all Mac Camfrog client versions before 1.7 will be blocked.

Camfrog Mac 1.7 has technology that makes it cross-compatible with our older Mac versions.  This means that if you are using Camfrog Mac 1.7 and an older version Mac user is viewing you then your bandwidth and CPU usage is doubled.  This is because your 1.7 Mac client is sending out two video streams.  One video stream is a 1.7 version video stream and the other is an earlier version video stream.  These double cross-compatible video streams also cause Camfrog client 1.7 to use more CPU resources and it causes people hosting Camfrog Servers to send out twice as much bandwidth.

We have given Camfrog Mac users since July (5 months) to upgrade to Camfrog 1.7 and we feel now is the right time to ask all Mac users to upgrade.  If you are having technical problems with 1.7 please report your problem so we can fix it as soon as possible.

Camfrog Client 5.2.148 Beta (Windows) is now available for beta testing.  This new beta version is only available to blog readers and it has not been announced anywhere else on our website.  Please report any bugs to our helpdesk or post your results here on the blog.

Download Camfrog Client 5.2.146 Beta (Windows)

This new beta version has many new features that we would like you to test.

1. Video chat privately with a friend to test out the new audio and video synchronization.  Please note the new client private video chat is incompatible with the old version, so to test this the person you are testing with also needs the new beta.

2. Pause your video in a chat room and you are now broadcasting a frozen video frame instead of just a blank white video window.  To test this join a video chat room, then pause your local video window.  If the person you are viewing is paused and using this new beta then you can see their still frozen video frame too.

3. From your contact list go to the actions/settings menus, then choose “video” to change your default video window sizes to “small” if you prefer.  Many users requested that they wanted to be able to choose small sized video windows in rooms as default with the webcam auto-organizer.  Now you can do this with the new beta version. You can also disable the webcam auto-organizer and turn on “Sticky Video Windows” if you prefer the old Camfrog 3.X video window style.

4. Video Chatting one-on-one should now work 100% of the time with the new beta version.  The old client versions could rarely fail in extreme circumstances, but after a lot of hard work we have figured out how to make this version 100% reliable.  If you find your private video chat is still failing somehow and both users are using this new beta please let us know so we can investigate.

5. If you are a free user you’ll notice when you join a room your remote video windows are now small even if the room is in “recommended” or “super” mode.  Don’t worry, you can still view large video.  Mouse over the remote video window and press the enlarge icon to make the remote video window large again.  We made this change so users with small screens can choose to see others with small video windows to save screen real estate.

There are also many other small enhancements to make the software work efficiently, and now Arabic is a language you can choose during installation.

Important: Please test carefully and email us or post comments if you find any problems with this new release.  Thank you for your help.

Download Camfrog Client 5.2.146 Beta (Windows)

Camfrog Mac 1.7.2806 is now available for download.  This new version has many bug fixes, improved stability, a new design for free users when joining video chat rooms, and the overall performance of the software is now improved.

Download Camfrog 1.7.2806 (Mac OS X)