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venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

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best light and fast IM/voicechat/Videochat application

Iam looking for a fast and light with minimum dependencies IM application which has voice/video chat functions
Does anyone use any application like that?
Thanks

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finferflu

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Re: best light and fast IM/voicechat/Videochat application

Sadly, I doubt it. It's rare to find such apps to start with. Then if among those few ones you want one with minimum dependencies I think you're gonna hit a wall.

Perhaps you have to specify the protocol you want. Amsn looks promising for those features and it doesn't depend on any DE. Not sure it's exactly light and fast. I haven't used it in the last 8 months or so, because I detest its UI.
Then we have Mercury, another MSN clone, written in Java. No particular dependencies, but, well, it's Java

If you want to use voice chat with Gtalk, you can try out Tapioca, which has at least some Gtk dependencies as far as I remember.

That's all I can remember for now, since I don't use audio/video.

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venky80

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Re: best light and fast IM/voicechat/Videochat application

ya I followed the Lnf discussion thread, but sadly it seems no one is big on chat/voicechat/video chat..;)
Well it seems tapioca and other jingle based IMs have QT4 dependencies..
I hope someone makes an application for lnf people...
Thanks for suggestions though

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baze

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Re: best light and fast IM/voicechat/Videochat application

empathy?

venky80

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Re: best light and fast IM/voicechat/Videochat application

i think empathy has gnome dependencies...

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praka123

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From: Kerala,India

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Re: best light and fast IM/voicechat/Videochat application

empathy failed miserably for me.I have ESD enabled though!.
I want a gtalk client with VOIP support.Is that possible?

fiod

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Registered: 2007-04-02

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Re: best light and fast IM/voicechat/Videochat application

What about this?
www.oovoo.com

though I am not sure the linux version is out yet..

praka123

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Re: best light and fast IM/voicechat/Videochat application

^I searched,they have no linux version :x

aRcHaTe

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Registered: 2006-10-24

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Re: best light and fast IM/voicechat/Videochat application

emesene is soon to have this..

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praka123

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Re: best light and fast IM/voicechat/Videochat application

Tapioca simply hangs!no progress!nothing displayed!very bad!

praka123

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Re: best light and fast IM/voicechat/Videochat application

I tried empathy,when I right click on call button it shows a box with "closed" message
the terminal o/p was:

 ** (empathy:5911): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.

what was that!

RobbeR49

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Registered: 2006-01-17

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Re: best light and fast IM/voicechat/Videochat application

Voice and Video support is one of the Google summer of code projects for Pidgin, so hopefully we'll be seeing the dividends of that work in the not too far future.

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GSoC2008/VoiceAndVideo

venky80

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Re: best light and fast IM/voicechat/Videochat application

Cool Info RobbeR49

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finferflu

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Re: best light and fast IM/voicechat/Videochat application

Voice and Video support is one of the Google summer of code projects for Pidgin, so hopefully we'll be seeing the dividends of that work in the not too far future.

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GSoC2008/VoiceAndVideo

It was about time.

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aRcHaTe

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Re: best light and fast IM/voicechat/Videochat application

Voice and Video support is one of the Google summer of code projects for Pidgin, so hopefully we'll be seeing the dividends of that work in the not too far future.

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GSoC2008/VoiceAndVideo

It was about time.

some here...its about freegin time! jabber with video support hurrayyyy

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