Over the last twelve months, MeBeam has been working with key instant messaging clients, providing a generic, protocol agnostic video call and conferencing solution, that works across any jabber network.
Today, I am very happy to announce, that Pidgin IM can make video calls to one or more friends instantly from their contact list.
Video calls can be made to anyone on your contact list, regardless of which Jabber network they are on.
Imagine, selecting one friend on your contact list from Adium, another friend who is on ICQ, and a third friend who is on Pidgin and make a 3 way video call.
Only the person making the video call needs to have a Jabber client with a MeBeam plugin. In other words, anyone can receive a video call, regardless of what client, network or platform they are using.
The following are step by step instruction on how to install and use the Pidgin MeBeam Plugin.
(1) Download Pidgin MeBeam plugin for Windows by clicking here.
(2) If you have Pidgin already running, you should close it at this point.
(3) Once download is complete, run the installer.
(4) Start Pidgin again
(5) Go to the Tools menu and click on plugins.
(6) Make sure the MeBeam plugin is ticked, and then click 'CLOSE'
(7) To make a video call to a single friend, right click on their name, and select 'Invite to MeBeam'.
(8) To make a video conference for multiple friends, right click on the main 'Buddies' section, and select 'Invite to MeBeam'
(9) Select all the contacts you want to invite to the video conference by selecting them from the left column and then click 'Invite to MeBeam'
WHY NO LINUX PLUGIN
Posted by: maria | July 27, 2008 at 08:26 AM
look and have fun
Posted by: flix | July 28, 2008 at 07:34 PM
Do the people who are in your Pidgin contacts know that you have posted their email addresses up for all the world to see??
Posted by: Me Who | July 29, 2008 at 03:16 AM
alguem legal o resto vai...
Posted by: roger | July 29, 2008 at 07:54 AM
give sources!
Posted by: a | July 30, 2008 at 01:59 AM
OK, so no Linux plugin? Can we work with you on getting one working? There is like ZERO webcam support out there for Linux.
Posted by: Dave | July 31, 2008 at 04:16 AM
j aime tout
Posted by: wiliam | August 02, 2008 at 11:35 PM
pls into http://www.mebeam.com/yamamoto
Posted by: yamamoto | August 06, 2008 at 08:51 AM
That's what you get with closed source. A Linux plugin when the authors feel like it, a 64-bit plugin when the authors feel like it, etc.
Or maybe it's going to be open source?
Posted by: Alexey Feldgendler | August 08, 2008 at 04:26 AM
arkadaş edinmek istiyorum
Posted by: canan | September 09, 2008 at 07:26 PM
ola kala? pame loipon.
Posted by: filippos | October 09, 2008 at 06:46 PM
If you need a tester for a Linux plugin, send me an email. I can test 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu. 64-bit system uses ivtv, 32-bit system uses uvcvideo.
Posted by: Erm | February 19, 2009 at 02:57 PM
I installed Kopete on my Dell Mini's Ubuntu and it worked out of the box with Yahoo's video.
Try again Pidgin.
The only thing I shouldhave to do is put my username and password for the IM services I use and that's all.
This is geek stuff.
I love command line and all that but it has to 'just work' right away which is something it fails right now.
Posted by: roger whittaker | March 24, 2009 at 05:09 AM
We need a linux plugin!
Posted by: Majandi | June 01, 2009 at 06:51 AM