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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,
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There's a similar thing to bitlbee called minbif that lets you videochat, show pictures and what not using libcaca.
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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
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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
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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.
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@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.
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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?
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I'm afraid setting the priority based on the service (text / video chatting) isn't possible.
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