pidgin video chat

[Suvayu Ali]

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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