don't know if this is a double post but i see alot of forums that say it's not possible to have n800 to pc video chat. i just downloaded gizmo 4.0 and it works, i was able to have a video and voice chat between the two.....:-)

With the SIP client using the H.263+ codec you can also do video calls between the N800/N810 and a PC/video enabled phone.

Hi Nellgotty,

Havent tried Gizmo yet... whats the quality like??

I tried a gizmo video N800-to-pc call yesterday. The video from the n800 (displayed on the pc) was a little bit grainy, but apart from that everything worked very nicely. Now to encourage some contacts to install gizmo on their pcs, as well as skype...

Ive tried this aswell, but the video the n800 transmits is such poor quailty its really hard to make anything out



also the video sometimes randomly flips upside down :S

You sure you had the N800 camera turrent turned all the way over - it only corrects when fully turned - tho' maybe the inversion switch itself isn't reliable.

Interesting! Could you please give more details? For example, my ISP in France (Free) provides me with a free SIP account (freephonie.net domain). Do you think I could establish a video communication between my N800 (or N810) tp my Ubuntu box running Ekiga? How am I suppose to configure the N800 and Ekiga?
TIA for your explanation!

First you should check if your SIP provider really supports the H.263 or H.263+ codec. At least here in germany by far not all SIP providers support codecs for video calls. Most just support audio codecs like G711, G726, G729...
My SIP provider is http://www.dus.net/


The stable version of Ekiga, which you can also find in the Ubuntu repositories, doesn't support H.263(+) video calls yet (only the older H.261 codec is supported). The development version has H.263(+) video support though.
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Whic...with_Ekiga_%3F
I don't feel the urge to install the SVN version of Ekiga on my Kubuntu machine. So I'll wait until the next stable Ekiga release.

The only other Linux Softphone I could find which claims to support H.263 is Linphone. But Linphone doesn't work for me at all.

On Windows there are more SIP clients with Video support. I have tested X-Lite 3.0 and video calls between X-Lite and the N800 are working just fine.
http://www.counterpath.com/xlite-overview.html

In another forum a user wrote that he is using the Grandstream GXV-3000 for video calls to the N800.
http://www.grandstream.com/gxv3000.html

Forgot to mention: the SIP video option is only available on OS2008, not on OS2007.

I actually gave Linphone a try last week and it worked very well for me on a Ubuntu machine. (via my own Asterisk server setup for h.263/h.263+) So just to let you know it's possible. I don't remember doing anything special, except possibly disabling any other video codec options Linphone had maybe? Other then that, Asterisk does have a few quirks to get around if that's what you're using.

Thanks for the information. I'm not using Asterisk, but an external SIP provider.

My main problem with Linphone is, that Linphone is automatically choosing the SIP realm based on the SIP username/sip server, which is not always correct.

When using a SIP provider where SIP server address = SIP realm this is no problem. But for my SIP provider the realm is dus.net, but the server adress is voip.dus.net.

So with Ekiga or any other SIP client where I can manually specify a realm a (successfull) logon looks like
With Linphone it's always
There seems to be no way to specify a different realm in the Linphone configuration.

Actually I got Linphone working with another SIP provider where server = realm. But this other provider doesn't support H.263.