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11 Start a video conversation with one of your contacts.
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21 <credit type="author">
22 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
23 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
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29 <title>Start a video conversation</title>
31 <p>If you have a webcam, you can call your contacts and have a video
32 conversation with them. This feature only works with certain types of
33 accounts, and it requires the other person to have an application that
34 supports video calls.</p>
38 <p>From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, click the
39 <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/camera-web.png">video call</media>
40 icon next to the name of the contact you wish to call and choose <gui style="menuitem">Video Call</gui>.
44 <p>A new window will open. When the connection is established, you will
45 see <gui>Connected</gui> at the bottom of the window, along with the
46 total conversation time.</p>
50 To end the conversation, click on <gui style="button">Hang up</gui>.
56 To turn a video conversation into an audio conversation, choose
57 <guiseq><gui style="menu">Video</gui><gui style="menuitem">Video Off</gui></guiseq>.
60 <section id="video-meta-contact">
61 <title>Start a video conversation with a meta-contact</title>
65 From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, right-click on the meta-contact.
70 Select the contact you want to have the conversation, and from the menu
71 select <gui style="menuitem">Video Call</gui>.
77 To recognize if a contact is a <em>meta-contact</em>, move your mouse on
78 a contact in the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, and stop over it for a
79 second: a small pop-up message will appear showing the number of the
80 contacts that form the meta-contact.