Does anyone know how to do video chat in pidgin? I can't figure it out for the life of me. I click on a contact name and the chat window opens. Then, under Conversation -> Media I have 3 options: Audio call / Video call / Audio and video call. But all are inactive (grayed out) and so they can't be selected. Does this mean that pidgin has been compiled in Fedora without audio/video support?
I am, however able to configure the Voice/Video Settings by going to Tools -> Plugins -> Voice/Video Settings, then click on the "Configure Plugin" button. So pidgin does see my camera and microphone. But what else do I need to be able to actually use them?
I've searched the web for this, of course, and I couldn't find a definitive answer. All information is outdated, or for other distributions, or simply vague. For instance:
https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/vv
or the user guide (which is really a FAQ):
https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin
Do I need to recompile pidgin with some non-free codecs enabled?
Thanks for any help!
On 03/09/2015 12:55 AM, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
Does anyone know how to do video chat in pidgin? I can't figure it out for the life of me. I click on a contact name and the chat window opens. Then, under Conversation -> Media I have 3 options: Audio call / Video call / Audio and video call. But all are inactive (grayed out) and so they can't be selected. Does this mean that pidgin has been compiled in Fedora without audio/video support?
I am, however able to configure the Voice/Video Settings by going to Tools -> Plugins -> Voice/Video Settings, then click on the "Configure Plugin" button. So pidgin does see my camera and microphone. But what else do I need to be able to actually use them?
I've searched the web for this, of course, and I couldn't find a definitive answer. All information is outdated, or for other distributions, or simply vague. For instance:
https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/vv
or the user guide (which is really a FAQ):
https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin
Do I need to recompile pidgin with some non-free codecs enabled?
Thanks for any help!
I too would love to know the answer to this! I've been just using another machine running Ubuntu (so that I can use Skpye occasionally!) But I'd rather use Pidgin on my "F"-Box!...LoL!
EGO II
On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 04:55 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
Does anyone know how to do video chat in pidgin? I can't figure it out for the life of me. I click on a contact name and the chat window opens. Then, under Conversation -> Media I have 3 options: Audio call / Video call / Audio and video call. But all are inactive (grayed out) and so they can't be selected.
I have wondered the same. I've come to the conclusion that only certain IM protocols can support it, but not knowing which ones.
I have wondered if it were something that Pidgin could do, by itself, using some particular protocol, and only use one of the instant messenger messages to send the invite through.
On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 10:54:05PM +1030, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 04:55 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
Does anyone know how to do video chat in pidgin? I can't figure it out for the life of me. I click on a contact name and the chat window opens. Then, under Conversation -> Media I have 3 options: Audio call / Video call / Audio and video call. But all are inactive (grayed out) and so they can't be selected.
I have wondered the same. I've come to the conclusion that only certain IM protocols can support it, but not knowing which ones.
I have wondered if it were something that Pidgin could do, by itself, using some particular protocol, and only use one of the instant messenger messages to send the invite through.
I don't know about the other services, but the XMPP based google accounts used to work (a bit buggy though). But by the time libpurple managed to work out the bugs, Google started pushing hangouts for audio/video calls, and at some point they removed video calls over XMPP.
Prsently I don't quite know if this works with other XMPP account providers like jabber.
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