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Dustin
Asked: 2011-10-29 06:25:58 +0800 CST

Google talk video not working

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Ok yesterday I tried google talk video for the first time. I am using Ubuntu 11.10, Google talk worked for me on my browser could see and hear both ways. However, when I tired google talk video on Empathy it did not. I would accept the call the new chat window would pop up but then disappear just as quick, the caller on the other end would see a message saying I ended the call. I had no chance to, and I accepted not declined. Also, when I tried to initiate the call it would not allow me to. As I understood things google talk was supported by empathy 'out of the box', any reason why empathy and google talk are not playing nice?

Thank you for your time and answers

PS. text chat works fine on empathy. and other user is using google talk via web browser

11.10

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You may want to consider adding the following repository which delivers the latest stable versions of Google talk plug-in for linux.

    Use Software Sources tool to add this.

    deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main

    then refresh your software repositories and install/update the plugin

    use the following command to add the authentication key:

    wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
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  2. You need to have the proper codecs installed.

    Go to synaptic manager and make sure you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-base, gstreamer0.10-plugins-good and gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad installed ( install all entries starting with those names).

    Doing that solved the issue for me.

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