Video within GoogleTalk? [Updated: 2x]
 

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I'm going to post an image of what I see. I don't have a macro lens on my cell phone, so I'm sorry it's SOOOO blurry. I don't recall ever seeing a video window pop up within Gtalk. Maybe I am wrong here, but this time when I try to call another PC with Gtalk installed it says "remote client unable to support video." Not that the N800 can't, but that the PC cannot.

Not sure if it means anything. I always thought the video occured through a separate app. It might have always been this way. I only had a few video calls in the 6 months or so since I got the N800.

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Hi

I was hunting around a couple of weeks ago for this google talk festoon plugin and the site was unavailable then also :(

Looks like their offline for good if it's still that way.

Google Talk on the N800 using 3.2007.10-7_PR does indeed make use of the camera and at the time that was what got me into searching the web for a desktop google talk client with video built in.

But alas I have yet to find said client or said plugin.

With what looks like the demise of the Nokia VOIP app I am in limbo with regards what use the cam has to offer on the N800 at the moment ?

There was some chatter on the forums hoping that the cam could interface with the web browser via flash 9 and allow us to use some online resource . .

So, any tableteers out there got this festoon plugin or a gtalk desktop client with video ?

TIA

Dave

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If anybody wants to test out video calls using gtalk, my screenname on gtalk is drygrass@gmail.com. who knows? maybe we'll learn something if we try it.

My guess, though, is that the latest update concerns future capabilities. It might be little while before applications are made to take advantage of the camera. As for why flash does not see the camera, is it because it's not a supported driver?

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Had a great GTalk video chat with TabulaRasa awhile ago... seemed to work just fine... Tab's in New Joisey... I'm in Nuevo Mexico!

... go figure :D

Omega :rolleyes:

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:p oops! ... forgot to mention we were both on the N800!

Omega :rolleyes:

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Festoon is no longer supported... I try that months ago and is nothing but problems... if you go to there forum is a forum for spammers only...

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Strange that we DO get Skype and video internet calling in the release, just not Skype WITH video internet calling the way I have been projecting for all these many months.

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Guys, its always been possible to video chat between two N800's over Google Talk.

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The real issue is GTalk between N800 and a desktop PC; that's what would be needed.

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Indeed. Immediately after we got our N800s, maddler and I tested it across Europe.

Why the fuss now over something which was so obviously included before?!

Is the point that it now supports Google Video with a Linux or Windows desktop?

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It does not support desktop video apps now. That's why I agree with you and it seems like a step backward. Unless they are doing it to try to boost n800 sales (need 2 for a video call).

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I suggest this add: "Buy 2 N800 and replace your talkie-walkies. Your money back"

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Ah, yes. Um . . .

Well, see the update to the main entry. Confusion on my part about whether there was something new here (no) or not.

Roger

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Well, it seems that there aren't so many standard-compatible desktop clients out there supporting XMPP and Video call anyways.... I wonder if Nokia will choose another protocol to be used for desktop video call support, if any. SIP, maybe? At least there are some desktop SIP clients supporting video, ekiga and eyebeam for instance.

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Does anyone know if Nokia/Skype are going to support video calls in future release of Skype?

Thanks.
Omar

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the N800 video chat to desktop was in beta, they took it out.
Guess maybe it is to boost sales, which sucks, because part of the reason I purchased my N800 was to do my video chat with pc users (don't have any friends with the N800 or 770).

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No, they removed it because it worked badly and sucked. They're supposedly working on a new solution for PC-tablet videochat.

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If nokia supports n800 to pc sip. Can we use that with a sip client on pc(that supports video) to be to have a video call btwn n800 and pc?

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Try it and let us know.

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does google talk video work? I mean desktop google talk.

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gizmo has a video version in beta stage for testing out right now. search this site for "video gizmo".

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No. The Google version of Google Talk has no built in support for VTC (video teleconference or video chat if you will). Interestingly, this isn't a limitation of the Google Talk infrastructure, as you CAN do VTC over Google Talk using two Macs running iChat. The protocol in use and the servers WILL do video chat.

I have recently been testing a new N800 on one end and iChat logged into a Google talk account on the other. Text works fine, voice and video do not. I'm going to keep picking things apart and see if I can't figure out where the point of failure is.

Cheers
ER

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