How to use Kopete with webcam

[Mitch]

Nigel Henry a écrit :
> I just bought a webcam last saturday from the Aldi supermarket. I got it 
> reduced from 25€ to 5€. It works after some Gogling to get the colour 
> working, on Xawtv, and Camstream, but how do I use it with Kopete?
>
> The only thing I could find on Kopete's plugins was "Netmeeting", which uses 
> gnomemeeting. Is this what I need to use, and how do I setup a connection to 
> someone else.
>
> I don't want to discredit Linux, and make it look like it's rubbish, so am 
> just looking for some pointers as to how the webcam works with Kopete.
>
> As you probably asume, I will be contacting folks using MS windows, who are 
> either using MSN, or AIM.
>
> Nigel.
>
> Webcam: Lifetec LT9388 using ov511+, and well supported with Linux.
> Test distro: Kubuntu 5.10
> Kernel: 2.6.12-10-386
>   
Kopete is an all-purpose, multi-protocol messenging system. I don't
think it can use webcams. However, you can use amsn (Aldo's MeSseNger)
which is able to behave almost like MSN - webcam included. It works well
once you've configured port redirection on your routers.

Mitch

___________________________________________________
This message is from the kde mailing list.
Account management:  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.
Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.
More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.