I installed kde4.2 on kubuntu 8.10 intrebid ibex linux via experimental repository. Kde4.2 is working very stable. I use kopete for windowslive and gmail account. I want to make video chat for windowslive account. my webcam is working on kopete configuration window video tab. But ı cant see any button on chat window. I cant start video chat. Is this is a wrong?

I do not know if Kopete's implementation of the MSN protocol supports Video Chat yet. You will probably need to ask the Kopete developers about this feature.

From the kopete handbook:

MSN
MSN supports the sending and receiving of webcams, if your camera is supported by the Video4Linux 2 (v4l2) standard. To view someone's webcam, right click on their MSN buttefly icon and select View Contact's Webcam. File transfer and multi user chats work. To transfer a file, drag the file from Konqueror or the desktop into the chat window. To invite someone else into a chat, drag them from the Contact List into the chat window. The File menu also contains these commands. In addition, MSN supports custom emoticons.
To use file transfer or a webcam, make sure port 6891 is forwarded to your computer.

RTFM

dtritscher wrote:From the kopete handbook:

MSN
MSN supports the sending and receiving of webcams, if your camera is supported by the Video4Linux 2 (v4l2) standard. To view someone's webcam, right click on their MSN buttefly icon and select View Contact's Webcam. File transfer and multi user chats work. To transfer a file, drag the file from Konqueror or the desktop into the chat window. To invite someone else into a chat, drag them from the Contact List into the chat window. The File menu also contains these commands. In addition, MSN supports custom emoticons.
To use file transfer or a webcam, make sure port 6891 is forwarded to your computer.

RTFM

I dont know RTFM mean!

Maybe: Read The Manual?

sorry to revive this topic, I'm using kopete 0.80.2 (part of kde 4.3.2) with a v4l2 webcam (webcam is configured within settings and testing it works) but when I try to start webcam chat via msn with another contact I have no way to do that (try the manual's way didn't work because I have no such option).

It appears the video chat capabilities are still not available in Kopete at this time.

bcooksley wrote:It appears the video chat capabilities are still not available in Kopete at this time.

is there a eta on when it will have?

Unfortunately I do not know the details of these plans. You would need to contact the Kopete developers for more information.

Does anyone know if video chat works for Yahoo protocol?

ok, thanks.

> Does anyone know if video chat works for Yahoo protocol?

I used to video-chat with kopete a lot on yahoo, but I can't
get it to work when yahoo made that change to their protocol
a few months back. I just made a big upgrade to my dist
(Fedora 11), and now I seem to have some driver issue:
cam works fine with ekiga, but kopete get a screen
with a bunch of colored horizontal lines. In the
past with each new dist of Fedora, I've had
to compile some driver by hand (I have
a logitech 5000 cam), though come to
think of it, maybe the uvc driver
("native") was working with
Fedora 10.


Alex

$ kopete -v
Qt: 4.5.3
KDE: 4.3.2 (KDE 4.3.2)
Kopete: 0.80.2

PS: (2nd edit in 10 minutes )
And now my cam (Logitech quickcam 5000)
is working fine with the UVC driver--go figure.
I'll find a friend and see if yahoo video works.