Re: LUG: Gmail video and choice chat now supported on Linux - Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:25:29 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Gmail video and choice chat now supported on Linux

From : Brad Oaks <bradoaks@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:25:29 -0400

If anyone has a USB camera they've had good luck with, let me know.
I haven't yet bought one, but am interested.

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Bao Vuong <vqbao@lv5.[redacted]> wrote:
> Empathy has this feature actually thanks to the new voice and video
> plugin for gmail.
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> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 12:55 -0400, Ben Berry wrote:
>> Folks, I'm not sure how many of you use this, but Gmail just made
>> their voice and (more importantly) video chat work in linux. I've been
>> chained to my windows PC to do this previously, but now it can
>> theoretically work from my Ubuntu laptop (I think Pidgin is even
>> including support soon).
>>
>> http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2010/08/use-linux-now-you-can-video-chat-too.html
>>
>> Now the only problem is getting my Logitech webcam to tell to Linux...
>>
>> Ben Berry
>>
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