You can only have audio and video conversation with contacts who are using an application which also supports this feature. When your contacts support audio or video conversations, you will see the following icons next to their names in the contact list:
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Icon |
Description |
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The contact is able to have an audio conversation. |
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The contact is able to have a video conversation. |
In order to have an audio conversation, you need to have a sound card that is supported by your operating system, and a working microphone.
In order to have a video conversation, you need to have a webcam that is supported by your operating system, and a working microphone.
You can only have audio and video conversations using accounts on certain supported services. The following table lists whether audio and video is supported for each type of account.
Account types are provided by plugins. Your system may not have all of the following types available, or it may have types not listed here. Updated plugins may make audio or video conversations possible on account types that are listed as unsupported here.
I'd like to do tables like this using nothing for No and ✔ for Yes, but we need to look at the accessibility impact. I've asked the accessibility team for input.
There's recent work on telepathy-butterfly and papyon to support audio and video for MSN. It might be released in time for 2.28, but since it doesn't follow the Gnome release schedule, I can't be sure. If it looks like it's going to ship, let's mark it Yes.
Service |
Audio |
Video |
AIM |
No |
No |
gadugadu |
No |
No |
Google Talk |
Yes |
Yes |
Groupwise |
No |
No |
ICQ |
No |
No |
IRC |
No |
No |
Jabber |
Yes |
Yes |
MSN |
Yes |
Yes |
myspace |
No |
No |
No |
No |
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People Nearby |
No |
No |
sametime |
No |
No |
silc |
No |
No |
SIP |
Yes |
Yes |
Yahoo! |
No |
No |
zephyr |
No |
No |