Hi all

Most of the people who want to try a VOIP video call have Windows Live Messenger Version 8.

Can Ekiga call or message Windows Live Messenger and visa versa.

I have Ekiga on FC6 64 bit running with UVC drivers. I have put Windows Live Messenger on my laptop WinXP and have logged into Messenger with msn account and logged into Ekiga on desktop with my ekiga account.

Now I am not to sure what to do. On Ekiga I am sitting with a

SIP: prompt.

I tried typing in my msn address but it just says timeout error:

On Windows Live Messenger I add my Ekiga account but that just shows me offline.

Can these two interoperate or is there something else other than rebooting to windows to video call friends on Window Live Messenger

Look forward to any help you can give me on this problem

Cheers

Gimmee

Hi all,

Did anyone ever provide an answer to this question? I am running Ekiga on Fedora 10; my in-laws are running Windows Live Messenger. I want to be able to VoIP them, but I cannot figure out how to make it happen. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance.

Commercial and non-commercial VOIP packages do not mix well, AFAIK. Windows Live Messenger has some inner concepts that Ekiga can't know about. It's the same for Skype with it's proprietary protocol.

It will be easier to install Ekiga on the other computers (friends, relatives), then convincing commercial companies like Microsoft and Skype to open up. It also a matter of bandwidth and server load - they do not want Ekiga to use their servers for VOIP transfers.

Arch Linux

Luckily, there's this:
gtalk2voip
google it, stupid forums won't let me post the url, but it's that with a www and a .com

It's basically a cross-platform/protocol interchange, no software required, it just lets you use a windows live (or other IM address) as a sip address.

""2. Q: Ok, how can I call Google Talk, MSN or Yahoo users from SIP ?

* A: This is a major feature of our gateway and it is very easy. GTalk: user@domain.com can be reached by calling to sip:user_at_domain.com@gtalk.gtalk2voip.com
* MSN: user@domain.com can be reached by calling to sip:user_at_domain.com@msn.gtalk2voip.com
* Yahoo: user@yahoo.com can be reached by calling to sip:user_at_yahoo.com@yahoo.gtalk2voip.com
* AIMi/iChat: screenname@aim.com can be reached by calling to sip:screenname_at_aim.com@aim.gtalk2voip.com
* ICQ: screenname@icq.com can be reached by calling to sip:screenname_at_icq.com@icq.gtalk2voip.com ""

make sure you actually type the _at_, as two @s won't work.
so if your recipients msn address is mickeymouse@hotmail.com, you call
sip:mickeymouse_at_hotmail.com@msn.gtalk2voip.com from ekiga

then they simply accept a contact that auto-adds them and you should be good to go.

the service can also leave voicemail messages in their email inbox, free of charge.

personally, unless the person I'm trying to contact is not very comfortable with computers, I would simply install ekiga on their pc, especially seeing as they have a windows client now.

good luck