Comment 17 for bug 203885

On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:57:33 -0000
Eduard Carcole <email address hidden> wrote:
> I am using Ubuntu 9.10 amd64 and have no problems with Ekiga.
>
> With Jaunty, sometimes, I got rid of the problem you have just by
> resizing the window several times, which is kind of really odd thing,
> but I used windows finally, against my own feelings.
>
> I would like to kindly suggest to ChrisV a temporary solution, instead
> of Skype, is to make video conference with Pidgin, which is still free
> software under GNU license, and it works so fine for me through Google
> Talk protocol, and your friend can also do through windows (Sorry if
> this is not the right place for such suggestion).

Hi,

The windows version of pidgin unfortunately does not support
audio/video. It is slated for a later version, but it does not work
yet.

Using empathy, you can connect with windows users who are using the
GMail video browser plugin, but again that does not work with pidgin
(pidgin does not seem to find the required h264 gstreamer plugin). I
can only get pidgin to work using the theora video codec. Furthermore,
the frame refresh rates when talking to the windows users on GMail when
using empathy are quite poor. I am not clear whether this is a problem
with empathy or libx264, or this is intended performance with the GMail
video browser plugin.

Have you managed to get pidgin to work with h264 (ie when talking
to windows users using the GMail browser plugin)?

Sadly, skype still seems by far the easiest way of talking to windows
users.

Chris