Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 11th Nov 2005 00:53 UTC
Over a year ago we reported on the promising gaim-vv which was supposed to bring MSN/Y! webcam and voice support to Gaim, a feature sorely missed by many IM users today when running Linux. The lead developer of the gaim-vv project now says that the Gaim project leader (now employed by Google) has killed off most of his pending CVS patches and has instead replaced them with voice-only patches, patches coming from Google which are only to be used with the Google IM protocol, leaving all other voice and all video protocols in dissarray. Update: The other side has spoken explaining the situation, but unfortunately it says nothing about webcam support for now or in the future, but only about voice.
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2005-11-11
The update to this story, which links to a post by one of the coders, clearly states that video is not being abandoned.
He said that Gstreamer & farsight is not mature enough to use, and that he is currently focusing on audio.
Farsight is a project concerned with audio & video for all the major IM networks, and when the gaim team consider it mature enough then they can use it, and gaim will support audio & video.
farsight is a project whose coders, I believe, are mainly concerned with aMSN. The point of the farsight project, though, is to develop support for audio & video in a way that allows any IM project to use it.
I have used the video support that aMSN offers, which I believe is done using farsight, and I have to agree that although it's good it's not mature.
Link to farsight here:
http://projects.collabora.co.uk/farsight/wiki/RoadMap
Edited 2005-11-11 15:52