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

[Robert Dale]

Thanks for the feedback everyone.  I went with a logitech HD C310. yum
installed libwebcam and installed Gtalk. Everything worked without a
hitch. Thanks.

Next project: zoneminder

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Jack Hill <jackhill at jackhill.us> wrote:
>
>
> 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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Robert Dale