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Hello,
My wife is about to have a baby (1 week to go). I bought a webcam, and it works perfectly fine with Linux.
She really really wants to be able to show her baby to our family in England when she/he is born.
I tried Skype, but it doesn't work with video in Linux. The Linux clone of MSN doesn't support videos either.
I am stuck! Please help...
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You could try a SIP client like Ekiga, which works with video. It's not compatible with Skype, of course, so anyone you want to talk to has to install SIP software too.
http://www.ekiga.org
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Submitted by Benjamin871 on Mon, 2007-05-07 17:59.
Vote!You could try a SIP client like Ekiga, which works with video. It's not compatible with Skype, of course, so anyone you want to talk to has to install SIP software too.
http://www.ekiga.org
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Submitted by committed on Tue, 2007-05-08 01:14.
Vote!Hi,
It looks like Ekiga is the way to go.
What's a piece of software for Windows that DEFINITELY works well with Ekiga, for audio AND video?
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Windows SIP
Submitted by Benjamin871 on Tue, 2007-05-08 12:32.
Vote!I'm afraid I don't know what works on Windows. In theory, anything that uses SIP should work with Ekiga, so the only problem ought to be finding something that has video. The list here might help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SIP_software#Free_software
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Submitted by guydjohnston on Tue, 2007-05-22 05:50.
Vote!I definitely recommend WengoPhone. Version 2.1 was just released, which works really well on my gNewSense system.
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