<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/" type="topic" style="task" id="video-call"> <info> <link type="guide" xref="index#audio-video"/> <link type="seealso" xref="audio-video"/> <link type="seealso" xref="audio-call"/> <desc> Start a video conversation with one of your contacts. </desc> <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-02" status="stub"/> <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-14" status="review"> <!-- <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-09-04" status="done"/> --> </revision> <revision pkgversion="2.30" version="0.3" date="2010-02-14" status="review"/> <revision pkgversion="3.2" version="0.4" date="2011-12-18" status="review"/> <credit type="author"> <name>Milo Casagrande</name> <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email> </credit> <license> <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p> </license> </info> <title>Start a video conversation</title> <p>If you have a webcam, you can call your contacts and have a video conversation with them. This feature only works with certain types of accounts, and it requires the other person to have an application that supports video calls.</p> <steps> <item> <p>From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, click the <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/camera-web.png">video call</media> icon next to the name of the contact you wish to call and choose <gui style="menuitem">Video Call</gui>. </p> </item> <item> <p>A new window will open. When the connection is established, you will see <gui>Connected</gui> at the bottom of the window, along with the total conversation time.</p> </item> <item> <p> To end the conversation, click on <gui style="button">Hang up</gui>. </p> </item> </steps> <note style="tip"> <p> To turn a video conversation into an audio conversation, choose <guiseq><gui style="menu">Video</gui><gui style="menuitem">Video Off</gui></guiseq>. </p> </note> <section id="video-meta-contact"> <title>Start a video conversation with a meta-contact</title> <steps> <item> <p> From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, right-click on the meta-contact. </p> </item> <item> <p> Select the contact you want to have the conversation, and from the menu select <gui style="menuitem">Video Call</gui>. </p> </item> </steps> <note style="tip"> <p> To recognize if a contact is a <em>meta-contact</em>, move your mouse on a contact in the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, and stop over it for a second: a small pop-up message will appear showing the number of the contacts that form the meta-contact. </p> </note> </section> </page>