How to use Kopete with webcam

[Nigel Henry]

On Thursday 25 January 2007 13:10, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:41, Mitch wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I think the latest version of Kopete can with certain protocol plugins:
> http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Kopete%20Webcam%20Support
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin

Hi Kevin. I've had a look at that, and it sounds promising.  Next slight 
problem. I've never upgraded any installed KDE packages before.  Any tips, as 
the latest version will no doubt be a tarball, and will want to install 
in /usr/local/bin.

Nigel.

Current Kopete is 0.10.4  using KDE 3.4.3
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