Re: [PLUG] Google chat/video

[Edmond Rodriguez <erodrig97.list@gmail.com>]

Free landline calls to US and Canada from Gmail

http://www.google.com/chat/voice/

Probably old news?  I don't know, but thought it would go well with the below.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Edmond Rodriguez
<erodrig97.list@gmail.com> wrote:
> I probably should have mentioned my correspondence below is the chat
> that is available in the browser when running gmail.
>
> http://www.google.com/chat/video
>
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=100173
>
> I have tried playing with XMPP with Pidgin via Google , and it was
> very trying, though also a learning process for me.  Never had
> complete success (been a while since I tried it).
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:17 AM, parametric <robotslovejokes@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Completely new to linux guy here. But I was using the Empathy client to
>> video chat through google last month on my ubuntu distro and had
>> problems "dialing out" where I could only connect to my BF when he
>> dialed in. I have no idea why and have added it to the long list of
>> things-to-figure-out-eventually.
>>
>> Brian.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 01:14 +0000, Edmond Rodriguez wrote:
>>> Perhaps old news, but Google Chat/Video seems to work on Linux (.deb
>>> plugin install file) now as well (see below correspondence).    Set up
>>> worked fine for me and I could see the web cam image the options
>>> setting, though I did not try chatting with anyone.
>>>
>>> I have been involved in helping to support a web cam (gspca module)
>>> for Linux releases, so I learned a bit.    In my case, I had to do the
>>> following, but maybe not true for all cameras.
>>>
>>> ubuntu@ubuntu:/tmp$ export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so
>>> ubuntu@ubuntu:/tmp$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib"
>>>    (this may not be needed depending on where things are)
>>>
>>> Then start firefox from the terminal so the above takes effect (or set
>>> it up some other automatic way).
>>>
>>> Edmond
>>>
>>> > From: Casey Bralla <MailList@NerdWorld.org>
>>> > To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
>>> > Sent: Sat, December 27, 2008 7:15:23 PM
>>> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] SIP SoftPhone Recommendations
>>> >
>>> > I just checked it out and got a message that it was not yet available for
>>> > Linux.  :(
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Saturday 27 December 2008 2:09:36 pm Jason Harlow wrote:
>>> > > I haven't tried it yet, personally, but Gmail now has video and voice
>>> > > chat that supposedly works on both windows and linux in firefox.
>>> > >
>>> > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org>
>>> > wrote:
>>> > > > I want to start using a software-based video phone to call my family and
>>> > > > friends (who use a mix of Linux and windows) and am looking for a
>>> > > > software recommendation.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > So far I've tried Ekiga (looks good in Linux, but the Windows client
>>> > > > bombed on me) and Skype (works great in Windows, but buggy in Linux).
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Anybody have a recommendation?
>>> > > >
>>> > > > --
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
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