Audio/Video chat does not work with iChat users

[Kẏra]

Binary package hint: empathy

iChat users don't appear as having audio or video chat available

[Kẏra (thekyriarchy)]

iChat likely does this because conference (multiparty) video calling isn't supported (Bug #493383)

[Kẏra (thekyriarchy)]

Ah, actually could this be from using MeBeam? http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=4959

[Kẏra (thekyriarchy)]

Audio/Video is incompatible with iChat users. iChat users don't appear as
having audio or video chat available and Empathy users don't appear to have it
from the iChat users perspective. Audio/video chat should be compatible with
iChat

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593604
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421567

Possible solutions from previous comments:
Might require some reverse engineering
Support of MeBeam http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=4959

[Kẏra (thekyriarchy)]

Upstream says:
Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: NOTGNOME
Where should this bug be filed?

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

seems to be an XMPP problem, so telepathy-gabble and report bugs to http://bugs.freedesktop.org. Once you report the bug link i there.

[Freedesktop-bugs (freedesktop-bugs)]

http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Muji is the telepathy muji implementation. Would this fix iChat support, as suggested in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599168 ?

[Will Thompson (wjt)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Muji is the telepathy muji
> implementation. Would this fix iChat support, as suggested in
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599168 ?

No, iChat doesn't implement Muji. I believe they negotiate a SIP session for video calls.

[Freedesktop-bugs (freedesktop-bugs)]

So gabble would have to spawn a sofiasip connection somehow?

[Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak)]

599168 is support for multi-user audio/video support, which is suggested as the reason iChat doesn't work with empathy

[Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak)]

OTOH, Will Thompson @ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25501 suggests:

> No, iChat doesn't implement Muji. I believe they negotiate a SIP session for
> video calls.

If that's the case, we're back to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593604 on the gnome side.

[Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak)]

reportedly, MUJI support wouldn't actually fix iChat.

[Simon McVittie (smcv)]

If iChat doesn't use the XMPP standard for audio/video calls (Jingle), then implementing support for whatever it *does* use is a quite extensive piece of feature work, rather than just a bugfix. (severity normal -> enhancement)

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