Doesn't the internet video call app just use the Telepathy libraries? telepathy-gabble library handles GTalk integration, I think, and I assume that telepathy uses gstreamer as its A/V backend...so if we get gst-plugins-ugly-x264 working, jackpot?

I did some initial experimentation last night and got an x264 package locally, though it failed to build on the autobuilder. A new enough gst-plugins-ugly will require a new glib, and I know from personal experimentation that the new glib requires a new gtk for the tablet to be useful (right now I'm running a full GTK stack w/ everything but the latest GTK and themes don't work). So I'm thinking that *surprise surprise* the five year-old GTK stack needs to be updated before anything else.