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This alone would move Ubuntu beyond Mac OS and Windows, particularly if it was easy to use, and you could then communicate directly p2p by hand shaking on any IM standard, either via jabber, AIM, yahoo, msn, skype, myspace, etc.
Also, Hi-Speed Internet file transfers. If you could easily move files at your maximum bandwidth easily with contacts from pidgin, many people would become more productive and faster.
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Bad webcam supports hinders the adoption of Ubuntu by camsluts.
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haha yeah camwhores will eventually need their fill of ubuntu too
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Although I think Pidgin is going to have webcam support soon anyway.
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kopete already has webcam support
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@master501: "Although I think Pidgin is going to have webcam support soon anyway."
Hmm, really? I thought the pidgin developers were really not interested in implementing webcam support. Any link to your source?
Webcam sluts, like me, have to use amsn for the moment to see relatives on the other side of the globe, don't think that will change any soon.
Fast data exchange interfaced via IM would be great though.
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Auzy
wrote on the 3 Aug 08 at 04:56
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The problem is that for Pidgin to add AV support, it needs to be done in a totally generic way that will work with all protocols.
I propose a completely different solution to this problem, which simplify clients greatly, and provide greater functionality.
Jabber lets you communicate with other IM networks such as ICQ and MSN messenger via a use of transports (servers which bridge between the two). I propose we add the ability to pass AV traffic between the Jabber and other chat networks.
This way, clients will be able to just implement Jabber support (force all users to have a jabber account, they can set up their own jabber server), and simply have the multi-account support on top. Adding AV support (jingle) for jabber will add AV for jabber support, and session intitiation and pass-through for transports, will add AV support for free, for all protocols (then the transport servers just need upgrading).
Its easier to make AV support for 1 protocol, rather then something generic enough for 30 different ones. And the AV work is already mostly done anyway (just use libjingle).
It actually would reduce pidgins or kopetes code base enormously by implementing this. In fact, even basic jabber clients (including online ones) have a lot of the features Kopete/Pidgin do already (including protocol support). AV transport support would push every single one lightyears ahead of them, with much less code.
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Auzy
wrote on the 3 Aug 08 at 05:00
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Actually, my solution may already be fully implemented client side. Its possible that AV support added to transports, may not even need changes client side, but just converters added to the transports.
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My idea was actually to be able to right click on any contact, in any protocol, and then start a p2p connection with them specifically implemented natively in Pidgin for text, VOIP, Video, and high speed data transfer (for files, mp3s, games, pictures, movies, whatever).
Doing it as a jabber thing with transports seems like an extra step. But whatever makes it "just work", and be dead simple to use, I'm into it!
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jens
wrote on the 4 Aug 08 at 07:08
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+1
I just spent two days to find out how to make my webcam work in Ubuntu. It does work nicely under "the other OS", so I thought it should be possible in Ubuntu, too. After a lot of reading, I learned about a bug in the hardware/firmware of my type of camera. ( UH??? The hardware did not seem to have any bug in windows ). I finally managed to make it work ( ??? I thought there is a hardware bug???) in luvcview only (installed and tried 4 other programs without success, including ekiga and camorama, each of them throwing different errors but no explanation on what to do when you get that error) after running an obscure command containing "info" in its name (didn't expect that to make work _anything_ , but it did). So I can now watch my pretty face on the screen. A simple glass mirror could have done that, too! However I am still unable to find out how to have my contacts on Yahoo or QQ enjoy it, too.
To be quite honest: I'm _not_ impressed by the webcam installation experience on Ubuntu (although it does a great job indeed elsewhere), and I sincerely hope that this mess will be fixed quickly. Most people try Ubuntu only once, and if it is not working properly the first time with their hardware (oh come on, don't tell me to buy another webcam), they'll revert to the other OS never to come back again.
If Pidgin developers (for any reason) do not want to include it into pidgin, it would still be nice to have _any_ working solution for every protocol (other than MSN which is _not_ working for the other protocols).
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saivann
(Brainstorm moderator)
wrote on the 16 Feb 09 at 19:42
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The rationale of this idea actually described two different ideas (high speed file transfer and webcam support). These ideas should be reported separately. Since both of these ideas are already reported as idea 12514 and idea 164, I'm marking this idea as a duplicate.
Thanks for your participation!
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I think it would be a good idea if you added a webcam feature for pidgin.
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