[kwlug-disc] question about Webcam, Mic, Headphone for Skype video calls

[B.S.]

No way around it. As long as Windows is the largest installed base of 
desktops, and you have to communicate with some of them, it is what it 
is and we all just have to deal.

Never mind that there are better or equally good solutions, be it the 
various google things (hangouts, talk, voice), linphone, ekiga, or the like.

There are only so many hours in a day, and to twist each conversant's 
arm to install or do something different than they already 'know' how to 
do gets old really fast. [Doesn't help when Windows does all of them, 
Mac and Linux only some, Blackberry even less.]

I expect this will change over time, like said earlier, Skype on Linux 
seems mired in old and out of date i386 functionality - yet somehow it's 
still here despite being years out of date already.


On 14-10-29 03:54 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> There lies the rub...  I want to connect to people using Skype, but I don't
> want any Microsoft products on my Linux machine if I can help it.
>
> On 29 October 2014 15:43, Hubert Chathi <hubert at uhoreg.ca> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:37:50 -0400, CrankyOldBugger <
>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> said:
>>
>>> Bit of a shot in the dark here, but does Pidgin have Skype plug-ins?
>>
>> Kind of.  There is a plugin for Pidgin, but it requires you to be
>> running Skype, and as far as I know, it doesn't support voice or video.
>>
>> I don't think anyone has managed to reverse-engineer the Skype protocol
>> yet.