[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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