Pidgin

Audio/Video chat does not work with iChat users

Bug #421567 reported by Kẏra
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This bug affects 10 people
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Empathy
Unknown
Medium
Pidgin
New
Undecided
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telepathy-farsight
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
telepathy-gabble
Unknown
Wishlist
telepathy-gabble (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: empathy

iChat users don't appear as having audio or video chat available

Kẏra (thekyriarchy)
Changed in empathy:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in empathy:
status: Unknown → New
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Kẏra (thekyriarchy) wrote :

iChat likely does this because conference (multiparty) video calling isn't supported (Bug #493383)

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Kẏra (thekyriarchy) wrote :

Ah, actually could this be from using MeBeam? http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=4959

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In , Kẏra (thekyriarchy) wrote :

Audio/Video is incompatible with iChat users. iChat users don't appear as
having audio or video chat available and Empathy users don't appear to have it
from the iChat users perspective. Audio/video chat should be compatible with
iChat

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593604
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421567

Possible solutions from previous comments:
Might require some reverse engineering
Support of MeBeam http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=4959

Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)
Changed in telepathy-farsight:
status: New → Invalid
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Kẏra (thekyriarchy) wrote :

Upstream says:
Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: NOTGNOME
Where should this bug be filed?

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Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx) wrote :

seems to be an XMPP problem, so telepathy-gabble and report bugs to http://bugs.freedesktop.org. Once you report the bug link i there.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in telepathy-gabble:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
affects: empathy (Ubuntu) → telepathy-gabble (Ubuntu)
affects: telepathy-gabble (Ubuntu) → empathy (Ubuntu)
affects: empathy (Ubuntu) → telepathy-gabble (Ubuntu)
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In , Freedesktop-bugs (freedesktop-bugs) wrote :

http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Muji is the telepathy muji implementation. Would this fix iChat support, as suggested in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599168 ?

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In , Will Thompson (wjt) wrote :

(In reply to comment #1)
> http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Muji is the telepathy muji
> implementation. Would this fix iChat support, as suggested in
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599168 ?

No, iChat doesn't implement Muji. I believe they negotiate a SIP session for video calls.

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In , Freedesktop-bugs (freedesktop-bugs) wrote :

So gabble would have to spawn a sofiasip connection somehow?

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Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak) wrote :

599168 is support for multi-user audio/video support, which is suggested as the reason iChat doesn't work with empathy

Changed in empathy:
status: New → Unknown
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Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak) wrote :

OTOH, Will Thompson @ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25501 suggests:

> No, iChat doesn't implement Muji. I believe they negotiate a SIP session for
> video calls.

If that's the case, we're back to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593604 on the gnome side.

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Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak) wrote :

reportedly, MUJI support wouldn't actually fix iChat.

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In , Simon McVittie (smcv) wrote :

If iChat doesn't use the XMPP standard for audio/video calls (Jingle), then implementing support for whatever it *does* use is a quite extensive piece of feature work, rather than just a bugfix. (severity normal -> enhancement)

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in telepathy-gabble:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in empathy:
importance: Unknown → Medium
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in telepathy-gabble:
importance: Wishlist → Unknown
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in telepathy-gabble:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
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In , Gitlab-migration (gitlab-migration) wrote :

-- GitLab Migration Automatic Message --

This bug has been migrated to freedesktop.org's GitLab instance and has been closed from further activity.

You can subscribe and participate further through the new bug through this link to our GitLab instance: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-gabble/issues/68.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in telepathy-gabble:
status: Confirmed → Unknown
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