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One thing that windows and mac users have had over linux users for a really long time is voice and video chat. While Skype has offered voice chat capabilities to linux users for a long time, their video offering only works with Windows and the Mac. ... [More] Ayttm has, on the other hand, had video chat capabilities for several years, but for various non-technical reasons, we've been unable to add voice capabilities to the mix.As I type this post, I've just gotten off a voice-video chat with my dad in Mumbai. The solution was pretty simple.We got voice through Skype, and video through Ayttm, and ran the two in parallel. There weren't any discernible syncing issues.Research has shown (though I can't find a link to the specific paper at the moment) that users will forgive bad video if audio quality is high enough. That's basically what you get with this arrangement. Yahoo! Messenger's video chat actually sends single frames spaced a few seconds apart rather than a video stream (Note, this information is publicly available via the libyahoo2 sources, courtesy Michaël Kamp), which means that you don't really see continuous lip movements, but you get the gist of facial expressions.(X-posted to bluesmoon) [Less]

One thing that windows and mac users have had over linux users for a really long time is voice and video chat. While Skype has offered voice chat capabilities to linux users for a long time, their video offering only works with Windows and the Mac. ... [More] Ayttm has, on the other hand, had video chat capabilities for several years, but for various non-technical reasons, we've been unable to add voice capabilities to the mix.As I type this post, I've just gotten off a voice-video chat with my dad in Mumbai. The solution was pretty simple.We got voice through Skype, and video through Ayttm, and ran the two in parallel. There weren't any discernible syncing issues.Research has shown (though I can't find a link to the specific paper at the moment) that users will forgive bad video if audio quality is high enough. That's basically what you get with this arrangement. Yahoo! Messenger's video chat actually sends single frames spaced a few seconds apart rather than a video stream (Note, this information is publicly available via the libyahoo2 sources, courtesy Michaël Kamp), which means that you don't really see continuous lip movements, but you get the gist of facial expressions.(X-posted to bluesmoon) [Less]

One thing that windows and mac users have had over linux users for a really long time is voice and video chat. While Skype has offered voice chat capabilities to linux users for a long time, their video offering only works with Windows and the Mac. ... [More] Ayttm has, on the other hand, had video chat capabilities for several years, but for various non-technical reasons, we've been unable to add voice capabilities to the mix.As I type this post, I've just gotten off a voice-video chat with my dad in Mumbai. The solution was pretty simple.We got voice through Skype, and video through Ayttm, and ran the two in parallel. There weren't any discernible syncing issues.Research has shown (though I can't find a link to the specific paper at the moment) that users will forgive bad video if audio quality is high enough. That's basically what you get with this arrangement. Yahoo! Messenger's video chat actually sends single frames spaced a few seconds apart rather than a video stream (Note, this information is publicly available via the libyahoo2 sources, courtesy Michaël Kamp), which means that you don't really see continuous lip movements, but you get the gist of facial expressions.(X-posted to bluesmoon) [Less]

One thing that windows and mac users have had over linux users for a really long time is voice and video chat. While Skype has offered voice chat capabilities to linux users for a long time, their video offering only works with Windows and the Mac. ... [More] Ayttm has, on the other hand, had video chat capabilities for several years, but for various non-technical reasons, we've been unable to add voice capabilities to the mix.As I type this post, I've just gotten off a voice-video chat with my dad in Mumbai. The solution was pretty simple.We got voice through Skype, and video through Ayttm, and ran the two in parallel. There weren't any discernible syncing issues.Research has shown (though I can't find a link to the specific paper at the moment) that users will forgive bad video if audio quality is high enough. That's basically what you get with this arrangement. Yahoo! Messenger's video chat actually sends single frames spaced a few seconds apart rather than a video stream (Note, this information is publicly available via the libyahoo2 sources, courtesy Michaël Kamp), which means that you don't really see continuous lip movements, but you get the gist of facial expressions.(X-posted to bluesmoon) [Less]

One thing that windows and mac users have had over linux users for a really long time is voice and video chat. While Skype has offered voice chat capabilities to linux users for a long time, their video offering only works with Windows and the Mac. ... [More] Ayttm has, on the other hand, had video chat capabilities for several years, but for various non-technical reasons, we've been unable to add voice capabilities to the mix.As I type this post, I've just gotten off a voice-video chat with my dad in Mumbai. The solution was pretty simple.We got voice through Skype, and video through Ayttm, and ran the two in parallel. There weren't any discernible syncing issues.Research has shown (though I can't find a link to the specific paper at the moment) that users will forgive bad video if audio quality is high enough. That's basically what you get with this arrangement. Yahoo! Messenger's video chat actually sends single frames spaced a few seconds apart rather than a video stream (Note, this information is publicly available via the libyahoo2 sources, courtesy Michaël Kamp), which means that you don't really see continuous lip movements, but you get the gist of facial expressions.(X-posted to bluesmoon) [Less]

One thing that windows and mac users have had over linux users for a really long time is voice and video chat. While Skype has offered voice chat capabilities to linux users for a long time, their video offering only works with Windows and the Mac. ... [More] Ayttm has, on the other hand, had video chat capabilities for several years, but for various non-technical reasons, we've been unable to add voice capabilities to the mix.As I type this post, I've just gotten off a voice-video chat with my dad in Mumbai. The solution was pretty simple.We got voice through Skype, and video through Ayttm, and ran the two in parallel. There weren't any discernible syncing issues.Research has shown (though I can't find a link to the specific paper at the moment) that users will forgive bad video if audio quality is high enough. That's basically what you get with this arrangement. Yahoo! Messenger's video chat actually sends single frames spaced a few seconds apart rather than a video stream (Note, this information is publicly available via the libyahoo2 sources, courtesy Michaël Kamp), which means that you don't really see continuous lip movements, but you get the gist of facial expressions.(X-posted to bluesmoon) [Less]

One thing that windows and mac users have had over linux users for a really long time is voice and video chat. While Skype has offered voice chat capabilities to linux users for a long time, their video offering only works with Windows and the Mac. ... [More] Ayttm has, on the other hand, had video chat capabilities for several years, but for various non-technical reasons, we've been unable to add voice capabilities to the mix.As I type this post, I've just gotten off a voice-video chat with my dad in Mumbai. The solution was pretty simple.We got voice through Skype, and video through Ayttm, and ran the two in parallel. There weren't any discernible syncing issues.Research has shown (though I can't find a link to the specific paper at the moment) that users will forgive bad video if audio quality is high enough. That's basically what you get with this arrangement. Yahoo! Messenger's video chat actually sends single frames spaced a few seconds apart rather than a video stream (Note, this information is publicly available via the libyahoo2 sources, courtesy Michaël Kamp), which means that you don't really see continuous lip movements, but you get the gist of facial expressions.(X-posted to bluesmoon) [Less]

One thing that windows and mac users have had over linux users for a really long time is voice and video chat. While Skype has offered voice chat capabilities to linux users for a long time, their video offering only works with Windows and the Mac. ... [More] Ayttm has, on the other hand, had video chat capabilities for several years, but for various non-technical reasons, we've been unable to add voice capabilities to the mix.As I type this post, I've just gotten off a voice-video chat with my dad in Mumbai. The solution was pretty simple.We got voice through Skype, and video through Ayttm, and ran the two in parallel. There weren't any discernible syncing issues.Research has shown (though I can't find a link to the specific paper at the moment) that users will forgive bad video if audio quality is high enough. That's basically what you get with this arrangement. Yahoo! Messenger's video chat actually sends single frames spaced a few seconds apart rather than a video stream (Note, this information is publicly available via the libyahoo2 sources, courtesy Michaël Kamp), which means that you don't really see continuous lip movements, but you get the gist of facial expressions.(X-posted to bluesmoon) [Less]

One thing that windows and mac users have had over linux users for a really long time is voice and video chat. While Skype has offered voice chat capabilities to linux users for a long time, their video offering only works with Windows and the Mac. ... [More] Ayttm has, on the other hand, had video chat capabilities for several years, but for various non-technical reasons, we've been unable to add voice capabilities to the mix.As I type this post, I've just gotten off a voice-video chat with my dad in Mumbai. The solution was pretty simple.We got voice through Skype, and video through Ayttm, and ran the two in parallel. There weren't any discernible syncing issues.Research has shown (though I can't find a link to the specific paper at the moment) that users will forgive bad video if audio quality is high enough. That's basically what you get with this arrangement. Yahoo! Messenger's video chat actually sends single frames spaced a few seconds apart rather than a video stream (Note, this information is publicly available via the libyahoo2 sources, courtesy Michaël Kamp), which means that you don't really see continuous lip movements, but you get the gist of facial expressions.(X-posted to bluesmoon) [Less]

One thing that windows and mac users have had over linux users for a really long time is voice and video chat. While Skype has offered voice chat capabilities to linux users for a long time, their video offering only works with Windows and the Mac. ... [More] Ayttm has, on the other hand, had video chat capabilities for several years, but for various non-technical reasons, we've been unable to add voice capabilities to the mix.As I type this post, I've just gotten off a voice-video chat with my dad in Mumbai. The solution was pretty simple.We got voice through Skype, and video through Ayttm, and ran the two in parallel. There weren't any discernible syncing issues.Research has shown (though I can't find a link to the specific paper at the moment) that users will forgive bad video if audio quality is high enough. That's basically what you get with this arrangement. Yahoo! Messenger's video chat actually sends single frames spaced a few seconds apart rather than a video stream (Note, this information is publicly available via the libyahoo2 sources, courtesy Michaël Kamp), which means that you don't really see continuous lip movements, but you get the gist of facial expressions.(X-posted to bluesmoon) [Less]