[Pidgin] #11997: Provide option to disable video chat entirely

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#11997: Provide option to disable video chat entirely
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 Reporter:  hircus  |        Owner:  Maiku          
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  new            
Milestone:          |    Component:  Voice and Video
  Version:  2.7.0   |   Resolution:                 
 Keywords:          |  
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Comment(by malu):

 Replying to [ticket:11997 hircus]:
 > Video chat support is still not 100% reliable, and in my experience (on
 Fedora x86_64) an incoming video request from a Google Talk user would
 reliably cause Pidgin to enter a busy loop (unresponsive interface, 100%
 CPU utilization. Before the recipient (me) is even given the option to
 accept or reject the call! Thank goodness for multicore CPUs!)
 >
 > This is a security risk -- it could be used as a Denial of Service tool.
 There needs to be a dialogue box prompting the user to accept/reject the
 video request, *before* any of the video subsystem is activated. And there
 should also be a unified way to disable voice or video functionality
 across all protocol

 I think this is a bug in Farsight2 that is fixed in newer versions (the
 latest is 0.0.19), and I believe a similar issue happens in Empathy.
 So, you could try upgrading to a newer Farsight2 version and see if the
 problem is still present.

 Thanks for the help.

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