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 <page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
-  type="topic"
-  id="video-call">
+      xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/"
+      type="topic" style="task"
+      id="video-call">
 
   <info>
     <link type="guide" xref="index#audio-video"/>
     <link type="seealso" xref="audio-video"/>
+    <link type="seealso" xref="audio-call"/>
     <desc>
       Start a video conversation with one of your contacts.
     </desc>
     <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-02" status="stub"/>
-    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-14" status="review"/>
+    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-14" status="review">
+      <!--
+      <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-09-04" status="done"/>
+      -->
+    </revision>
+    <revision pkgversion="2.30" version="0.3" date="2010-02-14" status="review"/>
+    <revision pkgversion="3.2" version="0.4" date="2011-12-18" status="review"/>
     <credit type="author">
       <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
       <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
     </credit>
-    <copyright>
-      <year>2009</year>
-      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
-    </copyright>
-    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+    <license>
+      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
+    </license>
   </info>
   <title>Start a video conversation</title>
 
+  <p>If you have a webcam, you can call your contacts and have a video
+  conversation with them. This feature only works with certain types of
+  accounts, and it requires the other person to have an application that
+  supports video calls.</p>
+
   <steps>
     <item>
-      <p>
-        From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, perform one of the following:
+      <p>From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, click the
+      <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/camera-web.png">video call</media>
+      icon next to the name of the contact you wish to call and choose <gui style="menuitem">Video Call</gui>.
       </p>
-      <list>
-        <item>
-          <p>
-            Select the contact you want to have a conversation with, and click
-            on the video call icon next to their name.
-          </p>
-        </item>
-        <item>
-          <p>
-            Right-click on the name of the contact you want to have a conversation with, and
-            choose <gui>Video Call</gui>.
-          </p>
-        </item>
-      </list>
     </item>
     <item>
-      <p>
-        A new window will open. When the connection is established, you will
-        see written, at the bottom of the window, <gui>Connected</gui> and the total
-        conversation time.
-      </p>
+      <p>A new window will open. When the connection is established, you will
+      see <gui>Connected</gui> at the bottom of the window, along with the
+      total conversation time.</p>
     </item>
     <item>
       <p>
-        To close the conversation, click on <gui>Hang up</gui>.
+        To end the conversation, click on <gui style="button">Hang up</gui>.
       </p>
     </item>
   </steps>
   <note style="tip">
     <p>
-      To turn a video conversation into an audio one, from the call window deselect
-      <guiseq><gui>Call</gui><gui>Send video</gui></guiseq>,
-      or click on the video call icon.
+      To turn a video conversation into an audio conversation, choose
+      <guiseq><gui style="menu">Video</gui><gui style="menuitem">Video Off</gui></guiseq>.
     </p>
   </note>
-
-
-
+  <section id="video-meta-contact">
+    <title>Start a video conversation with a meta-contact</title>
+    <steps>
+      <item>
+        <p>
+          From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, right-click on the meta-contact.
+        </p>
+      </item>
+      <item>
+        <p>
+          Select the contact you want to have the conversation, and from the menu
+          select <gui style="menuitem">Video Call</gui>.
+        </p>
+      </item>
+    </steps>
+    <note style="tip">
+      <p>
+        To recognize if a contact is a <em>meta-contact</em>, move your mouse on
+        a contact in the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, and stop over it for a
+        second: a small pop-up message will appear showing the number of the
+        contacts that form the meta-contact.
+      </p>
+    </note>
+  </section>
 </page>