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venky80

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Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … &px=NzQ2Ng

is anyone making a PKGBUILD without gnome deps?

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wonder

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

just add farsight2 to dependency and change pkgver to 2.6.1

edit: also don't forget to install optdepends from farsight2. they are needed

Last edited by wonder (2009-08-19 15:49:25)

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venky80

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

2.6 is in repo but cannot see voice video option in jabber!!

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

Yeah, can't seem to find it...

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venky80

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

Yeah, can't seem to find it...

I do not see any farsight2 dependency

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

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

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

Yes, I wanted to try it out with my gtalk account but can't seem to find it... gonna recompile with farsight2 installed...

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venky80

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

Yes, I wanted to try it out with my gtalk account but can't seem to find it... gonna recompile with farsight2 installed...

i installed farsight 2 and then tried to makepkg using pidgin pkgbuild , i still did not see voice or video

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

Yep, recompiling with farsight2 installed helps. How do I inform the devs?

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

Yes, I wanted to try it out with my gtalk account but can't seem to find it... gonna recompile with farsight2 installed...

i installed farsight 2 and then tried to makepkg using pidgin pkgbuild , i still did not see voice or video

Make sure you've updated the PKGBUILD version. My abs returned 2.5.8 instead of 2.6.1.

Basically, first install farsight2, then update the version to 2.6.1 and run makepkg. Its working here.

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arunix

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

Hello All I have Problem With pidgin
i install pidgin through command

pacman -S pidgin

its shows the latest version 2.6.1-1 and it installed but when i start it it gives the error

pidgin:
error while loading shared libraries: libgstinterfaces-0.10.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

i used gstreamer
now its not working .........................

Last edited by arunix (2009-08-24 13:53:43)

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djszapi

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

Did you try reinstall this one or the simple one -> extra/gstreamer0.10-base ?

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venky80

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

Did you try reinstall this one or the simple one -> extra/gstreamer0.10-base ?

why is this not a dependency then...i was getting the same error.
I got the video and voice working but i can see or hear anyone. I can see my webcam and see my mic activity

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AndyRTR

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

farsight is a community pkg and extra packages can't depend on it. we might think about removing it in when it's really helpful and stable.
so far gstreamer0.10 was enough i think. it always depends on your system what kind of gst subpkg you will need for your codecs and hardware.

btw: i'm only doing the updates because the origin pkg maintainer is away for weeks now.

djszapi

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

Venky80:

Did you sign o TUs to delete pidgin-vv package that's unneccesary because of this ?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … ts-611652/

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

farsight is a community pkg and extra packages can't depend on it. we might think about removing it in when it's really helpful and stable.
so far gstreamer0.10 was enough i think. it always depends on your system what kind of gst subpkg you will need for your codecs and hardware.

btw: i'm only doing the updates because the origin pkg maintainer is away for weeks now.

So far, but farsight2 is now needed for the voice/video. Which is, I believe, the main point for this new release. But its okay if this can't be put in extra, not too hard to do our own PKGBUILD anyway.

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venky80

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

Venky80:

Did you sign o TUs to delete pidgin-vv package that's unneccesary because of this ?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … ts-611652/

How can I contact them?
I orphaned it

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arunix

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

Did you try reinstall this one or the simple one -> extra/gstreamer0.10-base ?

Thanks  i use gsetream now its working.

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GogglesGuy

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

Ok... I tried it by compiling my own version of pidgin. So far, voice seems to be working, but only when I call people. When people call me, I click accept and nothing happens afterwards. Video doesn't work at all. When initiating a video call, it pops for half a second and then dissappears again. When people video call me the dialog will popup but nothing happens, nothing gets connected.

<rant>It's probably me, but I've tried the farsight / gstreamer stuff in the past, but if it doesn't work, or you don't have a certain library, it will just silently fail and not give you any error message on what happened or what's missing.</rant>

Dead Code

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

I added farsight2 as a dependency and the optdepends as well from the PKGBUILD in the ABS.  but AV doesn't seem to work.. the call dialog box pops up, call gets established and i dont hear/see anything.. after a while the call terminates by itself

Last edited by Dead Code (2009-08-22 11:50:57)

Patiek

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

I have installed from modified PKGBUILD and I have had great success in pidgin to pidgin google talk audio connections (haven't had any problems yet in prolonged communication). I have not tested it with video or with anyone having an official google talk client yet.

Last edited by Patiek (2009-08-23 03:42:14)

AndyRTR

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

so far the expeirences don't look like a stable really useful feature. let's wait a bit. tell us when it's really usable and drop me mail then or add the (next) bugtracker a feature request.

venky80

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

yesterday had a long conversation with the dev and used extensively pidgin (linux) to google talk google talk  to pidgin (linux)   pidgin (linux) to pidgin (linux) connections....seems to work some times other times it doesnt
Sometimes the voice is not clear initially and it slowly becomes clear.

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venky80

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

I added farsight2 as a dependency and the optdepends as well from the PKGBUILD in the ABS.  but AV doesn't seem to work.. the call dialog box pops up, call gets established and i dont hear/see anything.. after a while the call terminates by itself

how can i make pacman to install all optdeps along with main deps?

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RaisedFist

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Re: Pidgin 2.6 has voice and video support YEAH!!!

I compiled it from ABS with video-voice support. I get the "Audio Call" and "Video Call" options in the menu, but they do nothing when I click on them. Also, if a friend calls me with audio/video, I get a separate window with the option to accept the call, which I do, but I get no audio/video :-\ I'm on x86_64.

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