Ekiga, Skype, Messenger video calling

[Sebastian Spiess]

This might come a bit late but still...

I had a good experience with Skype Linux to windows video calls.

both parties had a simple logitec web-cam and I am running the latest Skype beta.
the other party runs WinXP, which skype version I don't know.

We had no problems with establishing the connection, all worked out of the box.

Cheers,
Seb


newcr wrote:
> I decided to try a video call to family this Christmas day. After 
> research, it seemed Ekiga would work with a video call to family members 
> (Microsoft users - MSN Messenger).  While Ekiga seems to work in its own 
> right (including test call to 500 at ekiga.net), I could not connect to the 
> other party (Using MSN Messenger I assume). Not to give up they 
> downloaded the windows version of Skype and I downloaded the Ubuntu beta 
> version of Skype. Audio call was fine but the program kept on crashing a 
> few seconds after enabling video. After a few trails and errors I 
> decided that for it to happen, I would have to /"join the dark side"/ 
> and set up MSN messenger on my kids XP box (dual boot but the rest of my 
> family always boot to XP). While I realise that there is a Windows beta 
> version of Ekiga and I have suggested it to the other parties, it is not 
> going to happen (Not even interested in non-MS solutions).
> 
> 
> *Main question
> Has anybody had experiences ... successes .... failures .... 
> particularly when the other party uses XP or Vista?*
> 
> Has anyone had good experiences with Ekiga to Ekiga video calls?
> 
> Also tried aMSN .... video and chat worked fine but audio is not 
> incorporated. Same with a few others I think.
> 
> My preferred solution is to use Ekiga and call to the other party who 
> uses MSN Messenger.
> 
> I get the feeling that on Christmas Day it will be a Windows to Windows 
> video call.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Chris