Has anyone managed to get video chat working in Pidgin on armhf? I was trying to use Pidgin on my Smartbook to call the GTalk video plugin on a Windows machine, but it always failed with "unknown error[s]". I noticed, though, that it even failed if I just tried to start an audio-only chat.

I've verified via gst-inspect that I have h264enc/x264dec plugins installed and available, along with Theora and Speex plugins. I've verified via `gst-launch v4l2src ! xvimagesink` that gstreamer can open a video stream using the webcam. I'm not sure how to test the audio, though.

Does anyone have any hints?

Have you managed to get any further with this? I managed video only, but audio only won't even call as it cannot find any codecs. This is on unstable armhf, with and without the extra gstreamer bits from the repo

Nope, I've been a bit swamped lately so I haven't had time to dig into it some more. What did you do to get the video working?

Hi,

You need gstreamer ugly codecs installed, as I think google video uses h.264. You then need to install the Voice/Video plugin in Pidgin and set it to explicitly use Xv, not leave it on auto detect. I did this and went from pidgin on armhf to the browser plugin on my ubuntu laptop.

As I say, only the video works, no audio as the codecs are not recognised.