Does Skype on the NIT allow for video chat? I need to go from the NIT to a PC or LT. From what I've read on these forums it seems that only GTalk NIT to NIT will work or installing other SIP(?) apps like Eyebeam perhaps? Any help will be appreciated.

TIA!

Joe

No Skype video on the NIT.

For a video call from NIT to PC you have the following:

1) SIP based using h.263/h.263+ video (PC clients like Eyebeam, linphone, etc)
2) Gizmo Project with PC 4.0 beta software
3) aMSN on the tablet to MSN Messenger on PC

GTalk or Jabber/XMPP to PC would be an option also, *if* there were any PC software that supported jingle-video. It amazes me that there still isn't any out yet.

here is a YouTube video demo of an online video call using the N800. I think he is using GoogleTalk but I am not sure...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2fh...eature=related

Pretty sweet...then again I dunno anyone with a camera. Us old guys are so out of touch.

BTW, that video has a plug for ITT...

Thanks Moonshine...I really didn't want to have to tell my contacts to install yet another chat package but I guess I have no choice. Any preference in regards to your list of three options?

Breck...I did see that video which is very cool. Unfortunately NIT to NIT does me no good. Thanks for your help though!

--Joe

whoa, aMSN does it! That's freeking handy. I think it'll be easier to convince people to have MSN running at home rather than a random other SIP client, on the off change that I hit a WiFi hotspot while I'm traveling.

Time to sign up for MSN I guess

joe it has nothing to do with NIT-to-NIT it's GTalk to Gtalk...it just so happens they demo'd using two NIT's because, well, they wanted to show how well it worked on both ends.

So Brecklundin, are you saying IT GTalk to PC GTalk does video?

Except the GTalk's PC client software doesn't have video capability currently.

Really there is nothing special about GTalk though. It's just Google's branded Jabber/XMPP based service. You could make the same video calls from tablet to tablet over any Jabber/XMPP server really. I've done it with a private Jabber server and it worked well.

If there was PC Jabber software that supported jingle-video (like the NITs use), then it could be done with PCs also.

As for what's *best right now* that sort of depends on what you're after.

Certainly aMSN wins for having the most popular PC client. (MSN messenger) I haven't tried it much, but it does work. The aMSN client is a little heavy on the tablet though, so do expect amazing framerates, etc. It's biggest advantage is that you're using a pretty popular PC client.

Gizmo is rather obscure but it still has presence notfication like MSN which you may want. (ie. user away, online, etc) Video works but quailty isn't the best. I've asked them over and over about the "bandwidth test" it does. Even on massive pipes I get "good" and some low rate selected. Still no answer.

If you are after the best quality video and voice, then SIP is it from what I've seen. It's actually quite good IMO. However most people aren't as familiar and related software like Asterisk, Eyebeam, etc.

I've been using video over SIP mainly though, using Eyebeam on Windows PCs. The only real hitch at this point is that I moved to an n810 recently and am waiting on this to clear up:

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2792

I'd prefer to find a Jabber/XMPP PC client though... still waiting.

oh, no kidding? the PC version does not have video? huh, I just assumed it did...geeze, nice move Google...and thanks for letting me know.

sorry fo not checking first...oops!!

Well the Linux version of Skype does have video (it's in beta though).