But, when I woke up this morning, a Yahoo Messenger update was waiting to be installed. Once it was done, I opened it up, quickly pressed the "Options" button, selected "Install Voice & Video plugin" and, lo and behold, the respective Market page appeared and allowed me to seal the deal.
Even so, I highly doubted it would actually work, so I asked my girlfriend to log into her Yahoo Messenger account on the PC and made my first Video call from the Galaxy Mini. Result? CRASH! Undeterred, I cleared the RAM and made a second attempt. Result? IT'S ALIIIIIVEEEEE!!!!!! Yep, I could see and hear (at a reasonable quality - limited of course by the crappy camera on the Mini) whatever was transmitted from the PC's webcam/microphone and viceversa.
There's one weird problem: on the phone screen, my video overlays the video that comes from the PC, which makes no sense and I hope a fix is on its way.
Note that the test was made on a Wi-fi connection, I've yet to try video calling on 3G. When I do, I shall update this post. Update: on 3G/HSDPA, a connection couldn't be established.
Sadly, a Linux Y!M client is still missing in action and until that is fixed, I am upset with Yahoo! Hmph!
hello,
ReplyDeletei have the same phone and i also installed this add-on. But don't you find it annoying that your camera uses to much of the display and you can barely see the image from the person you video-call with? Do you have any idea how to reduce the size of your camera image on your screen?
Thanks
Hello Razvan!
ReplyDeleteFrom the article: "There's one weird problem: on the phone screen, my video overlays the video that comes from the PC, which makes no sense and I hope a fix is on its way."
Yes, it is very annoying. But I hope it's only a matter of time until the developers issue an update to fix it. As it is now, I couldn't find a way to reduce the size.
hope samsung android people notices this and fix the cam yaaa i cannot too reduce the cam size
Deletemine too..
ReplyDeleteIt worked before on my Mini, and now it doesn't seem to be compatible with my mini galaxy. could it be a problem with my settings or something?
ReplyDeleteHmm... It works for me. Is the call being made at least? Maybe the person you are trying to call doesn't use a compatible YM client?
DeleteIt worked before on my Mini, and now it doesn't seem to be compatible with my mini galaxy. could it be a problem with my settings or something?
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