Ekiga and video chat with Windows user

[Jonathan Hudson]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:44:03 -0400
Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 22 July 2007, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > > I have done a lot of searching and came up with a big fat "nothing". I
> > > need a Windows application that does Video chat using the sip protocol.
> > > Does one exist?
> >
> > I have been using Ekiga for a while, but I seem to have poor quality,
> > especially when doing stuff on my laptop.  It's like several processes are
> > seriously competing for resources.  I know I work the poor beast, but it's
> > not supposed to be quite that bad.  At times IIRC, it's just shrieks at me.
> 
> Ekiga is a bit back-level.   The current version (2.0.3) is the same version 
> in Feisty as it was in  Edgy.  I was hoping for at least 2.0.5 which is 
> better)
> 
> I tried once to gather the pieces for 2.0.5 but couldn't get it to compile.  
> Might be time for another try.

Or just use the ekiga.org repositories to install 2.09  
<http://ekiga.org/index.php?rub=5>