[TriLUG] Best way to connect with family with webcam?

Jack Hill jackhill at jackhill.us
Fri Jul 29 12:11:39 EDT 2011



On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Jack Hill wrote:

> I've used Kopete and XMPP/Jabber with Jingle for video chat. Works well 
> (especially if you're a KDE fan like me :P). Unfortunately Google's extension 
> for XMPP video chat is incompatible with Jingle (at least last spring), so 
> you can't talk with people who use Google's web client. Wee competing 
> implementations.
>
> I've also used sip-communicator to do SIP calls.

Apparently this has been renamed Jitsi. (I don't have many friends who use 
SIP) (It can do other protocols too, but as mentioned above I use kopete 
for those)

>
> Jack
>
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Bill Farrow wrote:
>
>>  On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Reginald Reed <reginald.reed at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>> >  You may want to try Google Hangout - I haven't tried it yet (planning
>> >  to this weekend), but from what I've read, it support Linux. OS X and
>> >  Windows.  The feature I'm particularly interested in is the multi
>> >  person video feature.  That isn't free with Skype.
>> 
>>
>>  I can confirm that Google+ Hangouts work on Linux.  I had multiple
>>  people online chatting away, very easy to use too.  Now I need to
>>  retrain my mother to use it.
>>
>>  Bill
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