Just curious because I have one built into my laptop. I want a linux client that will allow my camera to participate in web chat with yahoo and Windows live messenger.
works fine here…it depends on your laptop hardware…that is, my
webcam has a linux driver…yours, i have no idea…
just use YaST to install Kopete (is it not already) and try it…
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palladium
well, in the video options mine works ok… but in windows live messenger it doesn’t work… it does not allow me to send my webcam or ask other to send it neither do video calls… so far i haven’t found a client that works with webcam… only skype which work like a charm…
isak suse wrote:
> well, in the video options mine works ok… but in windows live
> messenger it doesn’t work… it does not allow me to send my webcam or
> ask other to send it neither do video calls… so far i haven’t found a
> client that works with webcam… only skype which work like a charm…
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hmmm…actually, i should probably retract what i said…and, should
have written: my webcam works fine with Kopete (which i can see in
setup)…but, i have NO idea how it works “in web chat with yahoo and
Windows live messenger” as i’ve used neither…
everyone i wanna videoChat with uses Skype, and it works great…
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palladium
Years ago I used kopete to video converse with my mother (who lives a continent) away with the webcam function built in kopete (web both used kopete from our respective Linux installs). But I recall it was a bit buggy then. Since then my mother’s webcam has died, so I have not had a video webcam conference with Linux for years.