pidgin/Video and VNC

[LEQUEUX Etienne]

Pidgin now supports voIP/Vid since 2.6.1+

If using Ubuntu, quick setup is available from launchpad packages
( https://launchpad.net/~pidgin-developers/+archive/ppa )
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 18:44 -0600, Brad Johnson wrote:
> How did you even get Pidgin to work for VoIP and video? I thought Pidgin 
> didn't support that yet.
> 
> LEQUEUX Etienne wrote:
> > LO,
> >
> > 	I was delighted to use pidgin 2.6 (VoIP and video). KillerApp.
> >
> > 	I've also noticed that using proposed interface (gstreamer-properties),
> > one may choose rfbsrc as a video input plugin.
> >
> > 	... which would offer 'application sharing' to pidgin users...
> > 	
> > 	However, gstreamer-properties warns stating 'Custom: could not
> > negotiate format'
> >
> > 	:-(
> >
> > 	-> Would any of you offer tips & tricks here ? Any success to use this
> > way ? any way to parameterize rfbsrc ?
> >
> > 	I understand is this rather a gstreamer issue than a pidgin one... but
> > if it worked, I would offer another interesting feature to pidgin users
> > (thus those maybe more motivated rather gstreamer ones ?)
> >
> > (rfbsrc part of gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad , barely documented)
> >
> > TIA,
> > Etienne\
> >
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