[Advice] XMPP VideoChat Setup

rent0n · 2010-09-07 16:00:26

Hi,

I daily use weechat + bitlbee to manage my different IM accounts, including MSN, Facebook and XMPP.
I will move to the UK in October for about 4 years and I need a way to videochat with my parents.
My parents and I already have XMPP accounts (through Gmail and GMX, respectively) and they use Pidgin on their Xubuntu box.

I would like to know if there's a way to videochat with them given my current software configuration.
Maybe there's some script/addon/plugin for weechat/bitlbee I am not aware of? Also a little independent cli app would be nice...
Or do I have to reinstall pidgin just to have XMPP videochat?

Thanks,

Last edited by rent0n (2010-09-07 16:03:02)

dmz · 2010-09-07 16:03:21

There's a similar thing to bitlbee called minbif that lets you videochat, show pictures and what not using libcaca.

ehlo · 2010-09-07 16:17:55

There is a list of clients that support Jingle here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29

As Jabber supports multiple resources you can use a Jingle client only when you need to videochat. If you set it as a lower priority from your main client then it shouldn't receive chat messages, just videochat requests

awkwood · 2010-09-07 18:46:26

Google released a Linux version of their video chat plugin for Gmail not too long ago.
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/u … t-too.html.

I've haven't installed it on my Arch box yet but the Windows version worked fine for me.
Of course you'd need to be logged into Gmail

rent0n · 2010-09-08 12:06:11

Thanks for your replies. guys!

@dmz: minbif looks like a nice alternative to bitlbee. However, for now it is only possible to receive (and not to send) "video" (it's ascii art actually). Not what I'm looking for.

@ehlo: this sounds like an interesting and pretty easy option. I could use good old pidgin for that, but how am I supposed to set the whole priority thing up? Also can I access the same xmpp account with two different apps?

@awkwood: that's nice. But I don't use gmail and I would prefer to have a stand-alone app for (video)chatting.

Last edited by rent0n (2010-09-08 12:06:28)

Mineo · 2010-09-08 15:53:42

rent0n wrote:

@ehlo: this sounds like an interesting and pretty easy option. I could use good old pidgin for that, but how am I supposed to set the whole priority thing up? Also can I access the same xmpp account with two different apps?

Yes, you can use the same xmpp account with different apps - even on different computers
To change the priority for an xmpp account in pidgin, pacman -S purple-plugin-pack, it contains a plugin enabling some options to do that.

rent0n · 2010-09-13 12:24:14

Mineo wrote:

rent0n wrote:
@ehlo: this sounds like an interesting and pretty easy option. I could use good old pidgin for that, but how am I supposed to set the whole priority thing up? Also can I access the same xmpp account with two different apps?
Yes, you can use the same xmpp account with different apps - even on different computers
To change the priority for an xmpp account in pidgin, pacman -S purple-plugin-pack, it contains a plugin enabling some options to do that.

Just installed it but I really can't find the right plugin. Do you happen to remember its name?
EDIT: found it: XMPP Priority...!

RE-EDIT: I'm afraid I don't get it. How do I set pidgin and bitlbee so that bitlbee has chat priority and pidgin has audio and video priority?

Last edited by rent0n (2010-09-13 12:47:10)

Mineo · 2010-09-13 12:56:50

I'm afraid setting the priority based on the service (text / video chatting) isn't possible.

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