Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] thanks!!!

[Pablo Ortúzar <portuzar wanadoo fr>]

On Saturday 30 November 2002 04:41, william bastian wrote:
> that answered my question.  the ymessenger available from yahoo for
> linux does not support video conferencing and they say they have no
> immediate plans to make it happen.  just goes to show that  it will take
> some more market penetration by linux before they  sit up and take
> notice.
>     maybe netmeeting is what i am puzzling over, comes along with
> msnmessenger, have not used a web camera on that very often, it is not
> very good quality compared with ymessenger video, which is good
> i do know you have to open TCP 5100 on the firewall in the router for
> the new super-web camera feature  that they have in the current
> ymessenger 5.5 that people with high speed access can use,  dsl or cable
> modem.  i am using a dsl modem and a linksys router to hook both my
> windows 2k and the linux  mandrake 9.0 computers up to the dsl modem.
> both computers have 256meg of ram and are running at 1 gig for
> processors, amd brand processors.  using ethernet 10-100 cards  to the
> router and ethernet into the dsl modem.
> i am using mandrake linux 9.0, the 8.2 mandrake linux had a copy of
> gnome-meeting with it, but it never worked.  this 9.0 does see a
> logitech netcam express, a picture comes up on the screen.  just do need
> to know what to put in the address to make things happen, to get onto
> something like netmeeting.  again, i  understand that gnome-meeting is
> evolving and has not even reached 1.0 yet,  so writing a extensive
> instruction book for it might  be a bit of a waste of time since it will
> be changing.
>     so what do i put in that address window when it shows up?? the
> msnmessenger ID of the person i would like to netmeet with?  is there a
> special syntax or order?  remember, like a lot of windows user i am
> pretty much a point and click specialist(build my own computers and and
> get them running, including windows, and attempting to learn the linux
> mandrake operating system, which IS considerably different) so slowly
> attempting to learn the linux operating system a little at a time.
>   thanks for answering that question!  dissipates some fog!! i will also
> work on cutting down the length of my responses.thanks for your
> patience. bill
>
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Hello

Try this link:http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/mdoc/user/video-apps.html
Good luck

Pablo