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    <credit type="author">
      <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
      <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
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    <desc>Information on when it is possible to have an audio or video
    conversation.</desc>

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  <title>Audio and video support</title>

  <p>You can only have audio and video conversation with contacts who are using
  an application which also supports this feature.</p>

  <note>
    <p>In order to have an audio conversation, you need to have a sound card
    that is supported by your operating system, and a working microphone.</p>
    <p>In order to have a video conversation, you need to have a webcam that
    is supported by your operating system, and a working microphone.</p>
  </note>

  <section id="services">
  
  <title>Supported Account Types</title>

  <p>You can only have audio and video conversations using accounts on
  certain supported services.  The following table lists whether audio
  and video is supported for each type of account.</p>

  <note>
    <p>Account types are provided by plugins.  Your system may not have
    all of the following types available, or it may have types not listed
    here.  Updated plugins may make audio or video conversations possible
    on account types that are listed as unsupported here.</p>
  </note>

  <table frame="all" rules="rowgroups colgroups" shade="rows">
    <colgroup><col/></colgroup><colgroup><col/><col/></colgroup>
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <td><p>Service</p></td>
        <td><p>Audio</p></td>
        <td><p>Video</p></td>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td><p>AIM</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><p>gadugadu</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><p>Google Talk</p></td>
        <td><p>Yes</p></td>
        <td><p>Yes</p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><p>Groupwise</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><p>ICQ</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><p>IRC</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><p>Jabber</p></td>
        <td><p>Yes</p></td>
        <td><p>Yes</p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><p>myspace</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><p>qq</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><p>People Nearby</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><p>sametime</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><p>silc</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><p>SIP</p></td>
        <td><p>Yes</p></td>
        <td><p>Yes</p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><p>Yahoo!</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><p>zephyr</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
        <td><p>No</p></td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>
  
  </section>

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