Re: [Ekiga-list] configuration

2008-02-27 Thread John Hawley
Thanks very much for your suggestion but minicom and similar text based devices have now been supplanted with sms, and IM both of which are poor substitutes for face to face talking. The irritating thing is that we have used skype video calling for this purpose for 3 or 4 years (with varying de

[Ekiga-list] Visiting partner

2008-02-27 Thread Edward Dunagin
Hello All, I am 75 years old on Nov 14 and was diagnosed with COPD about 10 years ago. I also have CHF and had a stent and a pacemaker put in about 5 years ago My wife works and I am housebound. I am in need of of a Visiting Partner. I am in Montana USA which is in the Mountain Time zone, 2 hours

[Ekiga-list] h323 directory service

2008-02-27 Thread James C. Georgas
I'm using ekiga, and I want to call someone who's using NetMeeting, but we're both behind firewalls. Is it possible to use the addresses in the ekiga.net phone book with the h323 protocol, rather than the SIP protocol? Thanks, James ___ ekiga-li

[Ekiga-list] Video not scaling

2008-02-27 Thread Colin Fischer
I'm using a Logitech Quickcam Communicate webcam with qc-usb-messenger-1.7 driver. My video on Ekiga is cropped instead of scaled. It seems that my camera is operating at 640x480 and the video on Ekiga is cropped to 176x144. Is there any workarounds in Ekiga or is this a driver issue? Keep up the

Re: [Ekiga-list] configuration

2008-02-27 Thread Shawn Adams
John, I suspect I may be jumping into the middle of a conversation without all the information, but wanted to lend my bit into this. Please forgive me if I've misunderstood something. The goal is to send/receive high-quality video over the Internet to enable such things as lip-reading. The p