Google talk is a free alternative to Skype. It allows to make audio and video calls, create conferences. And it supports a text chat which is much better than the one offered by Skype.
You can use Google Talk software for making calls. And you can also use a Voice and Video Chat browser plugin that supports voice and video chat between Gmail users. The plugin is available for Windows (XP, Vista, and 7), Mac OS X (only on Intel-based Macs), and Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSUSE packages available, but the binaries work on other systems). The plugin must be downloaded and installed, but otherwise seamlessly integrates into the Gmail interface.
Google Talk Gadget is an Adobe Flash Player application that may be embedded in iGoogle and other web pages, allowing text chat with users of Google Talk.
The only problem is that Google Talk lacks recording of videos calls. Fortunately, the
Google Talk video recorder software - Replay Video Capture can help you to solve the recording problem perfectly.
Replay Video Capture is a professional Google Talk video call recording tool that helps you to record Google Talk video call when you have video chat with your buddy. It can record both video and audio, and save the recorded video as Windows Media .WMV file, MPEG-2 .mpg file or any other video file, so that you can replay your recording anytime. Replay Video Capture allows to record from 2 audio sources, so you will be able to record both sides of the conversation (or anyone participating in a conference call). And since it allows to record anything you can see on your screen, you can record both web-cams (or only one of them) as well as your desktop (computer screen).
Replay Video Capture can use any video codec presented in your system for compressing your video in real time. And it can even create a DVD-Video disc for you, so will be able to play your recordings even on a standalone DVD player.