[ubuntu-za] Video chat alternatives to Skype? Ekiga etc

[Andre Hugo]

Empathy works great. Supports video, voice, text chat and includes
screen sharing if you need to give support to a friend.

I have setup my Empathy with my google account and the video quality is
better than with skype in my case.

Have tried Ekiga but also could not get it working.

Cheers
Andre 


On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 11:16 +0200, Chris Schoonbee wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I have installed Skype 2.1.0.47 on Ubuntu 9.10 and have gotten it 
> working with a v4l preload command that I found on the ubuntuforum.
> 
> However I am looking for an alternative to Skype for video chats and 
> wondered if any of you have found anything or perhaps know of something 
> in the pipeline.
> 
> I have looked at Ekiga but my initial attempts at getting it to work 
> have been unsuccessful.
> Has anyone actually managed to have a PC-to-PC chat, or even better a 
> video chat, using Ekiga or maybe something else?
> 
> Also does anyone know of an application that will allow peer-to-peer 
> chats or video chats?  Peer-to-peer will no doubt need technical 
> knowledge by both parties (port-forwarding etc) to set up but I would be 
> very interested in trying it out.
> 
> It looks like one of the goals of the Gnome Telepathy/Empathy projects 
> is to support video chats but if I understand correctly, this is not yet 
> available?
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> 
> 
>