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Re: Video chat app

 

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Wayne Ward <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Its the camera in general it doesnt rotate in most apps Appear in
> google hangouts
>

Sorry, I am still not sure I understand what you mean by "it doesn't
rotate".
>From your next sentence it seems like you're talking about "switching from
rear camera to front camera".

Is that what you mean?


> im not sure if there is anymore video apps to test in so the ones above
> your sat looking at the back of the tablet if they want to see you on the
> camera, but then you cant see them on the screen.
>
> Im not sure were to fill the bug for this ?
>
> Wayne
>
>
> On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 09:10:59 BST, Andrea Bernabei <
> andrea.bernabei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Wayne Ward <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Anybody got any video chat app working on ubuntu touch, either phone or
>>> tablet ?
>>> Like to be able to talk to kids when in spain but don't want to lug the
>>> nexus 7, I've tried all the facebook messengers and appear in but camera
>>> wont rotate on tablet... Any body got any appear at all even through
>>> adding
>>> a puritine app ?
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Wayne,
>>
>> I'm not sure X11 apps can exploit hw accelerated codecs yet, so not sure
>> how a videocalling app would work on that.
>> Although I heard WebRTC based services should work quite well.
>> What do you mean by "the camera won't rotate" ? Would you mind filing a
>> bug
>> against oxide so that the developers can investigate your usecase?
>>
>> Was thinking if I use facebook video through firefox will that have access
>>
>>> to the camera and audio even Or anybody tried skype..
>>> Telegram would be great with video.... I see they are getting voice
>>> messages soon, but video would be the icing on the cake to me.
>>>
>>>
>>> Please have a look at
>> https://telegram.org/faq#q-can-i-make-calls-or-video-calls-via-telegram
>>
>>
>> Any thoughts appreciated...
>>>
>>> Wayne
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope that helps :)
>>
>> Andrea
>>
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