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Video chat with AIM

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I want to video chat from Empathy to Aim, can I do this? And if I can can someone show me exactly how?

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Gabe Gorelick (gabegorelick) said : 		#1

Sorry to disappoint you, but I have searched unsuccessfully a lot over the past couple years for a chat program that supports AIM video. Both pidgin and empathy do not currently support it, probably because reverse engineering AIM's proprietary protocol is tricky. So you're kind of out of luck if you have to use AIM. If you just need video chat though, and don't care about it being AIM, you have a lot of other options out there though.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#2

http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/FAQ#head-6e8718e2160a273ab4753d701c89235b3d21e041
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EmpathyVsPidginUsability

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