Google voice and video chat

[iggy pop]

I am very happy running Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) on my aging desktop but am i the only one who feels let down by the likes of Google?

For instance, when is Google going to bring out a Linux compatible version of it's voice and video chat program if ever?

[NightwishFan]

I believe Empathy can do voice and video chat on the GTalk protocal. (I could be wrong, I have never tested it.)

[Menthu_Rae]

Probably never.

You can however make a voice/video call in Pidgin to XMPP/Google Chat clients.

[Tibuda]

Probably never.So it will never work on Google Chrome OS.


You can however make a voice/video call in Pidgin to XMPP/Google Chat clients.Pidgin breaks when someone using Gmail tries to start a video call with you. That's so cool I have recompiled Pidgin without vv support for people stop breaking my Pidgin.

[Menthu_Rae]

So it will never work on Google Chrome OS.

Pidgin breaks when someone using Gmail tries to start a video call with you. That's so cool I have recompiled Pidgin without vv support for people stop breaking my Pidgin.

Google themselves are promoting other clients for support on other OSes (at least at the present time):

http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html

Do you know the timeframe for release of google chat for ChomeOS? I don't think so... pidgin and other clients at least provide some kind of functionality now - which helps the OP.

No need to be all hardcore Mr. Anger. :p

[Grenage]

I suspect Chrome will be the time that Gtalk gets video and voice chat.

[Tibuda]

Google themselves are promoting other clients for support on other OSes (at least at the present time):

http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html
See the "Voice calls to other Google Talk users" column.


Do you know the timeframe for release of google chat for ChomeOS? I don't think so... pidgin and other clients at least provide some kind of functionality now - which helps the OP.But not the functionality the OP is asking for: voice and video.


No need to be all hardcore Mr. Anger. :p
Anger? I'm not angry. I just don't like to use smiles so my sense of humor is not apparent at the internet.

[NCLI]

Well, it's based on the open XMPP protocol, so as soon as XMPP voice & video chat is supported by an IM client, it should work with GTalk too.

[Tristan Schmelcher]

FYI, Google released voice and video chat for Linux today. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/use-linux-now-you-can-video-chat-too.html