Yes, that's right ladies and gentlemen.
PIDGIN NOW HAS VOICE AND VIDEO CHAT SUPPORT!
I doubt much explanation is needed here. Video and voice chat has probably been the most requested Pidgin feature over the past five years.
Many thanks to Maiku, our Summer of Code student from 2008 who tirelessly spent many hours implementing this. This was a huge undertaking. Maiku has told me he will accept compensation in the form of pizzas.
We expect this functionality will be released sometime this month. Stay tuned.
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3 years ago
Really excited to see this, Casey. Well done to Maiku.. I will certainly be sending him lots of pizza's for this.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me happy. Shame this was posted on April 1, though.
ReplyDeletenot phun, at all.
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ReplyDeleteOmg, I read this only today and really believed it ... would have been too cool...
ReplyDeleteEh, you're a little late with your April Fool's joke; you're supposed to post it earlier in the day. :P
ReplyDeleteIt would be awesome to see this post any other day.
Dude.. not funny.. that's just depressing... :(
ReplyDeleteNot a funny April Fool's Day Joke
Despite the Rick Roll, I hope this is true
ReplyDeleteYeah you're kinda late to the party :P
ReplyDeleteis this real or is it like when you told me my mom died.
ReplyDeleteWow! That's really cool! Just I wish it would be real and not for 1st of April ... When I chat with others want a video and/or audio I have always hard times to explain why I like open source etc, when "Windows is much better it can do video chat with MSN" (according to them, of course).
ReplyDeleteLow..
ReplyDeletePlease let it be a joke!
ReplyDeleteIt's not really funny :p
ReplyDeleteYou got me.. One person out of everyone on the web. Hahaha.
ReplyDeleteseriously not funny. for a second there i actually got excited about this. you shouldn't be joking about this ever..
ReplyDeleteRFLOL!!!!!!!
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ReplyDeletegood one :) Hope this feature turns out for real
ReplyDeleteDude. You need to use a different URL, that one is too obvious. But I think you aren't joking about it being close to done, right?
ReplyDeleteI don't even understand how it can be tested by users, I guess if it's so close to release it should be somewhere at least as a source package. I've managed to use the mtn to get the pidgin-vv, and I could compile and run, both configure script and the help window says, that I have audio/video support now. But the Conversation->Media submenu within the chat window only contains greyed out items, so I have no idea how it should be used at all, and I can't even find information about this ... :( Otherwise pidgin-vv 2.6 seems to be pretty stable for me ...
ReplyDeleteFor the curious, yes this was an April's Fool joke, BUT the developers are making huge progress on voice and video.
ReplyDeleteThanks for being good sports :)
Oh hey, another question, does it build on Windows yet? I haven't been able to get monotone trees to build on Windows so I haven't been able to try it myself.
ReplyDeleteOh, last question, is your crash logging code going to make it into 2.6.0?
ReplyDelete1. No Windows yet (it's ugly, trust me)
ReplyDelete2. Probably, because 2.6.0 is still some ways out.
@Casey Ho
ReplyDelete"BUT the developers are making huge progress on voice and video."
Yeah right! - if their progress was really "huge", we would hear more about it.
I looks more like baby steps to me and for that reason Pidgin can be no more than a supplement for the real ones for maybe years to come, which is really really sad, because everything else about Pidgin is really useful and a joy to use :(
@Leo
ReplyDeleteIt's farther along than you think.
But there WAS another video first. What happened to that? After Effects?
ReplyDeleteNot funny. But you are right. This is the most requested feature for several years.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't please people once and for all?
There are several other chat clients that support webcams (Emesene Crazy, Emesene/aMSN 2 and even empathy!)
ReplyDeletePidgin is largely becoming irrelevant.