Information on when it is possible to have an audio or video conversation. Milo Casagrande milo@ubuntu.com 2009 GNOME Documentation Project Audio and Video Support

You can only have audio and video conversation with contacts who are using an application which also supports this feature. When your contacts support audio or video conversations, you will see the following icons next to their names in the contact list:

Icon

Description

Icon for audio conversation

The contact is able to have an audio conversation.

Icon for video conversation

The contact is able to have a video conversation.

In order to have an audio conversation, you need to have a sound card that is supported by your operating system, and a working microphone.

In order to have a video conversation, you need to have a webcam that is supported by your operating system, and a working microphone.

Supported Account Types

You can only have audio and video conversations using accounts on certain supported services. The following table lists whether audio and video is supported for each type of account.

Account types are provided by plugins. Your system may not have all of the following types available, or it may have types not listed here. Updated plugins may make audio or video conversations possible on account types that are listed as unsupported here.

Shaun McCance

I'd like to do tables like this using nothing for No and ✔ for Yes, but we need to look at the accessibility impact. I've asked the accessibility team for input.

Shaun McCance

There's recent work on telepathy-butterfly and papyon to support audio and video for MSN. It might be released in time for 2.28, but since it doesn't follow the Gnome release schedule, I can't be sure. If it looks like it's going to ship, let's mark it Yes.

Service

Audio

Video

AIM

No

No

gadugadu

No

No

Google Talk

Yes

Yes

Groupwise

No

No

ICQ

No

No

IRC

No

No

Jabber

Yes

Yes

MSN

No

No

myspace

No

No

qq

No

No

People Nearby

No

No

sametime

No

No

silc

No

No

SIP

Yes

Yes

Yahoo!

No

No

zephyr

No

No