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12 Start a video conversation with one of your contacts.
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24 <credit type="author">
25 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
26 <email its:translate="no">milo@ubuntu.com</email>
28 <credit type="author">
29 <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
30 <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
34 <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
37 <title>Start a video conversation</title>
39 <p>If you have a webcam, you can call your contacts and have a video
40 conversation with them. This feature only works with certain types of
41 accounts, and it requires the other person to have an application that
42 supports video calls.</p>
46 <p>Right-click on the contact that you want to call and select
47 <gui style="menuitem">Video Call</gui>.</p>
50 <p>A new window will open. When the connection is established, you will
51 see the total conversation time at the bottom of the window.</p>
54 <p>To end the conversation, click on the <gui style="button">hang
60 <p>To turn a video conversation into an audio conversation, choose
61 <guiseq><gui style="menu">Video</gui><gui style="menuitem">Video Off</gui></guiseq>.</p>
64 <section id="video-meta-contact">
65 <title>Start a video conversation with a meta-contact</title>
69 From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, right-click on the meta-contact.
74 Select the contact you want to have the conversation, and from the menu
75 select <gui style="menuitem">Video Call</gui>.
81 To recognize if a contact is a <em>meta-contact</em>, move your mouse on
82 a contact in the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, and stop over it for a
83 second: a small pop-up message will appear showing the number of the
84 contacts that form the meta-contact.