Video Chat - What to Get - Howto?

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I’m running openSuse 11.0.

My girlfriend would like to video chat with her grand kids. I would hate to think I have to boot to Windows to do this.

What should I buy and what software should I use?

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check here for webcam HCL/Web Cameras - openSUSE software for video conferencing:- Kopete,aMSN,Ekiga,Gnomemeeting

Andy

3

What do you think of Skype now that it has video support for Linux?

Thanks for the help.

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Okay, got a Logitech Quickcam Zoom working in Ekiga and Skype. For some reason it does not work in Kopete. Any ideas?

I use Yahoo in Kopete btw.

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Strange, i have a logitech & it works perfectly in kopete,aMSN,Ekiga etc. Check you have the up to date kopete. Dunno about Skype,never used it,sorry

Andy

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Skype is working well accept for a mic problem, but that’s another thread.

Thanks for the help. I’ll play around with Kopete as well since not everyone has Skype.