I would like a simple program to make videoconfernce and chat without problems from linux (my debian) to a windows xp (at long distance).

I tried and I would like to avoid:
*amsn: unlucky supports of WLM protocol, many bugs and problems while staying invisible and/or with lag/timeout in video trasmission.
*mercury: really good protocl to WLM support, but it's really heavy about resources usage and it doesn't support my v4l webcam at all (JMF installed correctly).
*skype: really good image, but closed sources, and chat features poor...

I'm not asking a WLM client, could be another protocol, but it must support at least chat (wroten) and webcam on both windows/linux.

Looking in wikipedia there are many chat programs, maybe someone have tried all.

P.S: why people love so much videoconference and dislike to came back to Dalnet/iRC network?

Kopete has some support for video conferencing, but I never tried it...

Hi Flyzone,

Had you tried Ekiga softphone? Do you need something like it?

Regards,
Andy.
www.linuxforbeginners.info

X2 on Ekiga if you don't want Skype

for sure, dimdim video conferencing. there is community version too