Ekiga, Skype, Messenger video calling

[andremangan at gmail.com]

Hello Chris,

I am very familiar with your plight.  For quite some time my brother in
England and I have been trying to set up communication via computer.  He is
a Windows user and not yet familiar enough with setting things up in Ubuntu
which he also has installed, so whatever programme we were going to use
would have to be available for both Linux (for me) and Windows (for him).

Over several months I have looked at every walkthrough for every programme
that promises to work.  No luck.

We tried Ekiga - neither of us were able to make it work at all.
(Registration fails)
We tried aMSN - with him on Yahoo as well as Messenger.
We tried Gyachi - looks promising but no real success so far and I wonder
whether or not it is video capable.
We tried Wengo phone - OK for text but no sound and no video.

Skype appears too problematic and I would not consider it.

So, I just pick up my broadband phone and ring him for 0.05 cents per minute
- without video.  Luckily I have a recent photo of him.

Perhaps the technology will have advanced sufficiently by the end of next
year.

Cheers,
Andre



On 06/12/2007, newcr <newcr at mysoul.com.au> wrote:
>
>  I decided to try a video call to family this Christmas day. After
> research, it seemed Ekiga would work with a video call to family members
> (Microsoft users - MSN Messenger).  While Ekiga seems to work in its own
> right (including test call to 500 at ekiga.net), I could not connect to the
> other party (Using MSN Messenger I assume). Not to give up they downloaded
> the windows version of Skype and I downloaded the Ubuntu beta version of
> Skype. Audio call was fine but the program kept on crashing a few seconds
> after enabling video. After a few trails and errors I decided that for it to
> happen, I would have to *"join the dark side"* and set up MSN messenger on
> my kids XP box (dual boot but the rest of my family always boot to XP).
> While I realise that there is a Windows beta version of Ekiga and I have
> suggested it to the other parties, it is not going to happen (Not even
> interested in non-MS solutions).
>
>
> *Main question
> Has anybody had experiences ... successes .... failures .... particularly
> when the other party uses XP or Vista?*
>
> Has anyone had good experiences with Ekiga to Ekiga video calls?
>
> Also tried aMSN .... video and chat worked fine but audio is not
> incorporated. Same with a few others I think.
>
> My preferred solution is to use Ekiga and call to the other party who uses
> MSN Messenger.
>
> I get the feeling that on Christmas Day it will be a Windows to Windows
> video call.
>
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
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