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Re: no microphone in skype



On 2014-12-06 22:31, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Andreas Weber <aendu@worldwideweber.ch> wrote:
>> On 2014-12-06 05:28, Gary Dale wrote:
>>> The problem is that Skype uses proprietary codecs and closed-source
>>> code. They're simply not very good at keeping it working with Linux.
> 
> I do not understand what you mean here. As per
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC , WebRTC is just an API. What is
> the equivalent of Skype that uses WebRTC?

Firefox 34 has built-in video calls. It's called "Hello". Enabling is
nicely described here if you don't see the icon:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/556102/no-hello-icon-in-firefox-34

HTH, ändu


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