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Bug 593604 - Audio/Video chat does not work with iChat users
Audio/Video chat does not work with iChat users
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: VoIP
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-08-31 04:27 UTC by kxra
Modified: 2009-12-16 12:35 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description kxra 2009-08-31 04:27:54 UTC 
Audio/Video is incompatible with iChat users. iChat users don't appear as having audio or video chat available and Empathy users don't appear to have it from the iChat users perspective. Audio/video chat should be compatible with iChat
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-09-01 08:58:58 UTC 
This is Connection Manager bug; not an Empathy one.

Which protocol is using iChat when doing audio/video?
Comment 2 kxra 2009-09-01 17:26:54 UTC 
iChat uses google talk (jabber/XMPP), and maybe other protocols, but i at least know video chat should work with gtalk
Comment 3 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-09-02 09:59:26 UTC 
Are you sure? Last time I checked iChat's XMPP implementation didn't support audio/video.

Do you know any client which can interop with iChat for audio/video?
Comment 4 kxra 2009-09-08 01:51:02 UTC 
Yeah i just verified that it supports video chat with XMPP but it doesn't seem to even be compatible with Gmail voice/video chat. If we wanted interoperability we'd probably have to detect which contacts are using iChat and use iChat's special bullshit. Fucking apple.
Comment 5 Alexander “weej” Jones 2009-10-11 13:11:59 UTC 
iChat users can voice/video with other iChat uses if both are using XMPP. Probs just needs some mount of reverse engineering.
Comment 6 kxra 2009-12-07 20:05:29 UTC 
Could adding MeBeam support fix this? https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604017
Comment 7 Jeremy Nickurak 2009-12-15 19:09:06 UTC 
Will Thompson @ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25501 suggests:

> No, iChat doesn't implement Muji. I believe they negotiate a SIP session for
> video calls.

If iChat uses sip for voice, does empathy need to spawn a telepathy-sofiasip connection in response to a telepathy-gabble event? I'm unclear what would happen in this scenario.

This bug doesn't have a clear indication of why it's resolved 'NOTGNOME'.. so I'm reopening here in the event that I misunderstand what's up.
Comment 8 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-12-16 12:35:28 UTC 
Empathy doesn't know anything about protocol implementation details. If iChat actually supports a non standard protocol for audio/video over XMPP, this should be implemented in telepathy-gabble.