[Ubuntu-be] A Quick solve to Pidgin Video between Windows and Ubuntu

[Tom Van Braeckel]

Thanks for the heads up, Glenn and Liganya !
Perhaps you should give this a place in the Ubuntu or Pidgin documentation
somewhere ?

Best regards,

Tom Van Braeckel.

PS: Your penguin looks a bit violated to me... here's a new one for you:

-o)
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Message void if penguin is violated...Don't mess with the penguin.



On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Glenn South <fc243265 op skynet.be> wrote:

> Hallo peoples, noobs, and close friends,
>
> This drove me nuts for days on the battle between Windows and Linux.
>
> Video in Pidgin.
>
> BUT!, what I have found works so good it's amazing.
>
> First when you do a search, you see forums, everyone griping about the
> same thing.
>
> Pidgin doesn't support VoIP and Video, well it did somewhere, because my
> wife used it. It got lost somewhere. 9.04 to 9.10
>
> But through trial and error, I got the video up so they could see her in
> the Philippines.
>
> It works and is free, my problem was navigating the SUDO command lines
> in terminal, which I stumbled and learned where the files were
> downloaded, goto the Readme.docs for the proper way of getting those
> installed files and compiling it into Ubuntu. It works!
>
> Now the problem is on the other side of the issue. The other person must
> also have the client installed as well, again Windows pidgin or ubuntu
> pidgin.
>
> Any 20 euro camera, USB works, so far we have tested as long as it is
> chipped VDC codec, i.e. VDC. OLD original Logitech webcams work in
> cheese but not acceptable. I have so many trial and error third party
> software in the libraries, I don't know what made it work.
>
> Konomo.com is the key. All the files you need are there. This integrates
> Windows and Ubuntu together.
>
> Here's How it works!
>
> [glennsouth]→→→→→Sends you invite→→→→↓
>                                     ↓
>                                     ↓
>                                -----------
>                                |  Konomo |
>                                -----------
>                                     ↓
>                                     ↓
> [tesspechardo]→→Accepts invite←←←←←←←↓
>
> Give it a try at least it works!
>
> Glenn and Ligaya
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