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The Marratech client is a freely available
software that is easily installed on your computer. Marratech
gives you access to a secure group work environment with
crystal clear voice over IP, an interactive whiteboard, the
ability to share information and documents, talk and chat
in groups or in private and - if desired - the opportunity
to see each other by using web cameras.
Once installed on your computer, Marratech
lets you enter a meeting by simply clicking a link on
a web page.
Marratech combines the following:
What's new in 5.1?
- Support for Marratech Free servers. (Read http://www.marratech.com/free/
for more details.)
- An audio-related issue
was solved where participants within a meeting could randomly hang simultaneously.
- Built in support for multiple languages. Open the Options
under Tools and look under the
General tab. Client must be shutdown and restarted
when you change language.
- Improved layout in the
Options / Preferences.
- Improved repaint performance under Tiger for Mac users.
 This manual
now has an appendix dedicated to MeetNow!
What was new in 5.0?
Marratech 5.0 offers new functionality and many improvements.
Here are a few of them:
- New name, Marratech Pro becomes simply "Marratech"!
- Walkie
Talkie mode is on by default for new users.
To speak, press the microphone button and keep it pressed
in. To stop speaking, let the button go.
This new mode saves bandwidth and improves voice quality.
- Should
you want to keep the microphone button pressed in, to
use the whiteboard and talk at the same time, press
CTRL when clicking the microphone.
- New user interface making
it possible to hide unused tools. It also removes separate
windows such as the viewer and
private chats and integrates then in the main interface.
- Use
the button in the lower right corner to switch to the whiteboard!
- Participant video size can be enlarged.
- Audio bandwidth
limitation now implemented. If many people have the microphone
button pressed simultaneously, then
the codec will reduce in quality in order to avoid network
congestion.
- Remote application control. Enables you to give
control of your application to another participant.
- Improved
application sharing. Our VNC based application sharing
now uses a transparent rectangle to select what
is to be shared.
Additionally, Marratech 5.0 can connect to an external
VNC server, enabling new training scenarios.
- Application
sharing is now available for Linux users as well.
- AES 256
bit encryption ensures the privacy of your meetings with
even higher encryption levels.
- Now includes the ability
to specify the capacity of your uplink, thus avoiding any
possible saturation of your
DSL/Cable connection, where upload is often slower than download.
- Improved new video rendering code for Mac OS X.
- Improved compability with Mac OS X Tiger.
Marratech has two different interfaces. Choose
the interface that best matches your skills and needs.
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Flexible: This new interface combines
all the functionality into one window, but lets you
close and open the various components, matching your
meeting scenario.
The size of the Participants video can also be made
larger and application sharing is now available from this
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Expert: This interface is meant
for expert users. In this interface, all the modules
are separate and they can be toggled separately.
Keep in mind that even if you choose not to view the
whiteboard or chat (for example) they are still active
and being updated in the background, ready for you
to make them visible again.
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About this manual
Commands, buttons and menu alternatives are always given in
bold + italic, applications and menu names are
given in italic. Useful hints and tips are highlighted
with this icon:
This manual has been written using Marratech 5.1 for
Windows while using the Flexible interface.
The same main functionality can also be found in the Linux
(Redhat) and Mac (OS X) versions.
The manual covers the most common functionality and preference
settings. For the sake of simplicity, the screen shots will
focus on the new, default, Flexible interface.
The table of
contents on the right acts as a guide through the pages. We
recommend reading at least the Startup Guide for
Windows or Mac before joining a meeting the first time.
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Windows specific hints are highlighted by the Windows
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Linux specific hints are highlighted by Tux. |
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Mac OS X specific hints are highlighted by
the Mac OS X logo.
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Other information
Marratech hosts a user forum where many questions are
answered and discussed, please
join our community!
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