<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
- type="topic"
- id="audio-video">
+ xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/"
+ type="topic"
+ id="audio-video">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#audio-video"/>
- <desc>
- When it is possible to have an audio or video conversation.
- </desc>
<revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-02" status="draft"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-14" status="review">
+ <!--
+ <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-09-04" status="done"/>
+ -->
+ </revision>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.30" version="0.2" date="2010-02-14" status="review"/>
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
+ <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
+ </credit>
+
+ <license>
+ <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
+ </license>
+<!--
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2009</year>
+ <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
+ </copyright>
+ <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+-->
+ <desc>Information on when it is possible to have an audio or video
+ conversation.</desc>
</info>
- <title>Audio and video conversations</title>
+ <title>Audio and video support</title>
+
+ <p>You can only have audio and video conversation with contacts who are using
+ an application which also supports this feature.</p>
+
+ <note>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ <p>In order to have a video conversation, you need to have a webcam that
+ is supported by your operating system, and a working microphone.</p>
+ </note>
+
+ <section id="services">
+
+ <title>Supported Account Types</title>
+
+ <p>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.</p>
- <p>
- When your contacts support audio or video conversations, you will see, next to
- the contacts name in the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, one or two small icons that
- represent the different conversations you can have.
- </p>
+ <note>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ </note>
- <table frame="all" rules="cols" shade="rows">
+ <comment>
+ <cite date="2009-09-04">Shaun McCance</cite>
+ <p>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
+ <link href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2009-September/msg00006.html">asked
+ the accessibility team</link> for input.</p>
+ </comment>
+
+ <comment>
+ <cite date="2009-09-04">Shaun McCance</cite>
+ <p>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.</p>
+ </comment>
+
+ <table frame="all" rules="rowgroups colgroups" shade="rows">
+ <colgroup><col/></colgroup><colgroup><col/><col/></colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- Icon
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Description
- </p>
- </td>
+ <td><p>Service</p></td>
+ <td><p>Audio</p></td>
+ <td><p>Video</p></td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/audio-input-microphone.png">
- Icon for audio conversation
- </media>
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- This is the icon that represents the possibility to have an audio conversation.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/camera-web.png">
- Icon for video conversation
- </media>
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- This is the icon that represents the possibility to have a video conversation.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>AIM</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>Facebook Chat</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>gadugadu</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>Google Talk</p></td>
+ <td><p>Yes</p></td>
+ <td><p>Yes</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>Groupwise</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>ICQ</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>IRC</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>Jabber</p></td>
+ <td><p>Yes</p></td>
+ <td><p>Yes</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>MSN</p></td>
+ <td><p>Yes</p></td>
+ <td><p>Yes</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>myspace</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>qq</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>People Nearby</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>sametime</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>silc</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>SIP</p></td>
+ <td><p>Yes</p></td>
+ <td><p>Yes</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>Yahoo!</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><p>zephyr</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ <td><p>No</p></td>
+ </tr>
</tbody>
</table>
+
+ </section>
</page>