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Wed, 19 Aug 2009

New pidgin has voice and video support

Pidgin 2.6.1 has been released in the early hours of this morning with a surprising new feature: voice and video support. It is only supported in XMPP, and only on operating systems that are not Windows, but it is a good start.

Those who want to try it in Fedora 11 can do so by running the following:

As root:

yum-builddep pidgin
yum install libidn-devel farsight2-devel libnice-devel

As user:

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/files/Pidgin/pidgin-2.6.1.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf pidgin-2.6.1.tar.bz2
cd pidgin-2.6.1
./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt/pidgin
make
make install

Run

$HOME/opt/pidin/bin/pidgin

There is currently no UI in pidgin to configure the microphone or the webcam, so just run

gstreamer-properties

to do so.

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