If i recall correctly, Pidgin does not yet support webcam use. Try aMSN instead.
Cheers.
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Re: Question regarding voice talk & webcam in Pidgin.
Pidgin does not support video or voice chat. You can try aMSN, but I don't like it, it is fugly and more or less a clone of MSN, so I live without video and sound chat..
Re: Question regarding voice talk & webcam in Pidgin.
I agree with Magnus , amsn sure doesn't win any aesthetics awards. There's always Skype, I don't use it but I don't think MSN profiles work with it.
I think desktop-based distro's should start improving the webcam support, maybe things have changed, but last time I got a webcam working it looked so bad it was unusable IMO.
I think desktop-based distro's should start improving the webcam support, maybe things have changed, but last time I got a webcam working it looked so bad it was unusable IMO.
Re: Question regarding voice talk & webcam in Pidgin.
BTW, there are some rumors going that if your GPU supports anti aliasing it won't look like something made from ....