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8 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-02" status="draft"/>
9 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-14" status="review">
11 <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-09-04" status="done"/>
14 <revision pkgversion="2.30" version="0.2" date="2010-02-14" status="review"/>
15 <credit type="author">
16 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
17 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
21 <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
26 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
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30 <desc>Information on when it is possible to have an audio or video
35 <title>Audio and video support</title>
37 <p>You can only have audio and video conversation with contacts who are using
38 an application which also supports this feature.</p>
41 <p>In order to have an audio conversation, you need to have a sound card
42 that is supported by your operating system, and a working microphone.</p>
43 <p>In order to have a video conversation, you need to have a webcam that
44 is supported by your operating system, and a working microphone.</p>
47 <section id="services">
49 <title>Supported Account Types</title>
51 <p>You can only have audio and video conversations using accounts on
52 certain supported services. The following table lists whether audio
53 and video is supported for each type of account.</p>
56 <p>Account types are provided by plugins. Your system may not have
57 all of the following types available, or it may have types not listed
58 here. Updated plugins may make audio or video conversations possible
59 on account types that are listed as unsupported here.</p>
63 <cite date="2009-09-04">Shaun McCance</cite>
64 <p>I'd like to do tables like this using nothing for No and ✔ for Yes, but
65 we need to look at the accessibility impact. I've
66 <link href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2009-September/msg00006.html">asked
67 the accessibility team</link> for input.</p>
71 <cite date="2009-09-04">Shaun McCance</cite>
72 <p>There's recent work on telepathy-butterfly and papyon to support
73 audio and video for MSN. It might be released in time for 2.28, but
74 since it doesn't follow the Gnome release schedule, I can't be sure.
75 If it looks like it's going to ship, let's mark it Yes.</p>
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79 <colgroup><col/></colgroup><colgroup><col/><col/></colgroup>
82 <td><p>Service</p></td>
94 <td><p>Facebook Chat</p></td>
99 <td><p>gadugadu</p></td>
104 <td><p>Google Talk</p></td>
109 <td><p>Groupwise</p></td>
124 <td><p>Jabber</p></td>
134 <td><p>myspace</p></td>
144 <td><p>People Nearby</p></td>
149 <td><p>sametime</p></td>
164 <td><p>Yahoo!</p></td>
169 <td><p>zephyr</p></td>