Hi Folks Does anyone know if Audio and Video (AV) chat works with Jabber from Empathy?
I meet up with my brother frequently on-line for an AV chat. Up to now we have used Skype, which works well, because he is basically a Windows man, but recently he has started to experiment with Ubuntu (11.10) on a USB stick. We have tried our usual Skype chat using Ubuntu both ends and that is OK (now he has got himself a UVC compatible webcam). However, when we tried Jabber AV chat we got no connection. I would like to show him that we can move away from Skype, especially as we can expect no more Linux support for it now that Microsoft have bought them. I have just been trying to make a Jabber AV connection between two computers at home using Empathy and that has been a failure too, although I have had it working OK in the past. Both ends just showed 'Connecting' and even when I hung up both ends, my desktop computer showed Pulseaudio and zeitgeist-daemon taking up to 100% of both CPU cores and 80% of the 2GB ram, until I killed them both. What experience do other people have? I know AV chat may not be a top priority for a lot of the Ubuntu community, but Microsoft always make a big thing of it when promoting their operating systems.
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