Hello,

i tried several protocols and clients on my linux pc
but so for i had no success. I want to establish a
stable connection where my linux pc automatically answers
a video call which is triggered from my N900. Can someone
help out with a setup? I didnt find anything in the forum
which works for me.

This is what i tried out so far with the build in instant messenger
on the N900 and:

1) Skype: No doubt, its propritary stuff but its damned good.
Unfortunately, the client on the linux pc does not support
h.264 and therefore video calling is not possible.

2) Gtalk: Again on my linux pc the gtalk plugin for firefox and
chrome crashs, i had no luck with the plugin.

3) Empathy with Jabber/Gtalk: Instable, i get videos on both
machines, the video is stuttering and in many cases the connection
is discontinued. The big advantage here: Its complete open source
and it works out of the box without port forwarding etc

I also tried out other clients/protocols like amsn, psi, kopete.


Blues

This setup works for me. I admit that the video quality from the front camera of N900 is not the best, but I have not had problems you reported. I would guess that Instability is probably from old version of empathy/telepathy and from laggy network connection.

@Petteri: Do you use jabber or gtalk and which versions of
empathy/gstreamer codecs? I use Opensuse 11.4 which
should provide new versions of those packages.


Blues

I've no problem with Skype on Linux but you have to makes video call by Wi-Fi.

Google Talk : no problem, no crash...

I use Debian. Empathy version is 2.30.3. I have mostly been talking from jabber.ru server to google talk servers, but also to jabber.org.