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#1 2009-08-11 15:23:19

zephyrus17
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Best chat program with webcam/microphone support?

What's the best application for chatting that has support for video calls and where I can connect to my MSN messenger contacts? Something like Windows Live Messenger where you can text-chat and video call all in one. I've tried aMSN, but the webcam/microphone issues are just too much. Does emesene have webcam support? I'm using gnome, if that matters.

[I guess this goes into the "networking" forum? Mods please move if better elsewhere]

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#2 2009-08-11 18:40:53

tomd123
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Re: Best chat program with webcam/microphone support?

I don't know if pidgin supports it, but then again, I haven't seen pidgin not support something. smile

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#3 2009-08-11 19:11:41

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Re: Best chat program with webcam/microphone support?

zephyrus17 wrote:

What's the best application for chatting that has support for video calls and where I can connect to my MSN messenger contacts? Something like Windows Live Messenger where you can text-chat and video call all in one. I've tried aMSN, but the webcam/microphone issues are just too much. Does emesene have webcam support? I'm using gnome, if that matters.

[I guess this goes into the "networking" forum? Mods please move if better elsewhere]

Try to install emesene-bzr from aur. As far I know there's only webcam support but it should work well.


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#4 2009-08-11 19:28:35

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Re: Best chat program with webcam/microphone support?

tomd123 wrote:

I don't know if pidgin supports it, but then again, I haven't seen pidgin not support something. smile

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%2 … Nvideochat

zephyrus17: try aMSN

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#5 2009-08-12 00:13:18

zephyrus17
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Re: Best chat program with webcam/microphone support?

I am using aMSN now. But the support and the general interface of aMSN is so buggy and ugly. How mature is aMSN2? Or is that still in beta?

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#6 2009-08-12 00:16:42

Wintervenom
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Re: Best chat program with webcam/microphone support?

Kopete has support for voice-chatting and webcam for MSN and Yahoo!.

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#7 2009-08-12 01:03:15

zephyrus17
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Re: Best chat program with webcam/microphone support?

Is it better to get the kdemod version of kopete? Since it's more modular? I really don't want to install 155Mb of kde just for one program...

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#8 2009-08-12 06:48:54

jelly
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Re: Best chat program with webcam/microphone support?

zephyrus17 wrote:

Is it better to get the kdemod version of kopete? Since it's more modular? I really don't want to install 155Mb of kde just for one program...

The normal KDE packages etc. are also made modular and i don't know how far behind KDEmond is , how much it competes with repo installed KDE packages. Second note, is diskspace still an issue ? ( 1 TB is cheap )

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#9 2009-08-12 07:19:17

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Re: Best chat program with webcam/microphone support?

You may try Mercury 2 (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28988), though it's written in Java and feels a bit "slow". I don't know about video calls, but it has webcam support, so I guess it should be OK.

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#10 2009-08-12 08:35:18

zephyrus17
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Re: Best chat program with webcam/microphone support?

I'll give it a shot. Java is slower than others. But if it's not TOO slow it's ok for me

Since there's no "java-runtime" I set it to depend on "jre" instead (should I have used something else?). And when it runs it says

/usr/bin/mercury: line 58: java: command not found

Do I replace all instances of "java" in /usr/bin/mercury with "jre"?

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#11 2009-08-12 09:49:03

SeaWolf
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Re: Best chat program with webcam/microphone support?

You can use openjdk6 (from [Extra] repository), it's an open-source implementation of Java. Install it and you'll be fine smile

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#12 2009-08-12 10:16:40

zephyrus17
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Re: Best chat program with webcam/microphone support?

Will I have to rebuild mercury? In the first pkgbuild I put jre as the "depends"

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#13 2009-08-12 12:41:43

SeaWolf
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Re: Best chat program with webcam/microphone support?

Yes, I think it's better to use the original PKGBUILD.

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#14 2009-08-12 13:25:40

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Re: Best chat program with webcam/microphone support?

zephyrus17 wrote:

I'll give it a shot. Java is slower than others. But if it's not TOO slow it's ok for me

Since there's no "java-runtime" I set it to depend on "jre" instead (should I have used something else?). And when it runs it says

/usr/bin/mercury: line 58: java: command not found

Do I replace all instances of "java" in /usr/bin/mercury with "jre"?

The problem is that jre needs to update the PATH variable. There's a file in /etc/profile.d that does just like that, so you can source it or log off and log on again.


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#15 2009-08-12 13:57:56

zephyrus17
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Re: Best chat program with webcam/microphone support?

Hmmm.. I just rebuild it with openjdk6 instead of java-runtime as the depends. It runs fine, but it keeps "verifying password". So that doesn't seem to be going very well.

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#16 2009-08-13 20:11:26

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Re: Best chat program with webcam/microphone support?

It works just fine with jre, that's what I have used to test it, your problem is most probably what denisfalqueto says.

Also you don't need to recompile the package if you change what provides java-runtime, it's a java program, it's interpreted/compiled at runtime by whatever provides java-runtime.

Also unless you have any serious gripe with jre I recommend you use it, maybe sooner than later you will find something that doesn't work properly with the open source implementations of java.


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