This might come a bit late but still... I had a good experience with Skype Linux to windows video calls.
both parties had a simple logitec web-cam and I am running the latest Skype beta. the other party runs WinXP, which skype version I don't know. We had no problems with establishing the connection, all worked out of the box. Cheers, Seb newcr wrote: > I decided to try a video call to family this Christmas day. After > research, it seemed Ekiga would work with a video call to family members > (Microsoft users - MSN Messenger). While Ekiga seems to work in its own > right (including test call to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), I could not connect to the > other party (Using MSN Messenger I assume). Not to give up they > downloaded the windows version of Skype and I downloaded the Ubuntu beta > version of Skype. Audio call was fine but the program kept on crashing a > few seconds after enabling video. After a few trails and errors I > decided that for it to happen, I would have to /"join the dark side"/ > and set up MSN messenger on my kids XP box (dual boot but the rest of my > family always boot to XP). While I realise that there is a Windows beta > version of Ekiga and I have suggested it to the other parties, it is not > going to happen (Not even interested in non-MS solutions). > > > *Main question > Has anybody had experiences ... successes .... failures .... > particularly when the other party uses XP or Vista?* > > Has anyone had good experiences with Ekiga to Ekiga video calls? > > Also tried aMSN .... video and chat worked fine but audio is not > incorporated. Same with a few others I think. > > My preferred solution is to use Ekiga and call to the other party who > uses MSN Messenger. > > I get the feeling that on Christmas Day it will be a Windows to Windows > video call. > > > Thanks > Chris -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
