Google Talk Video Chat with Gmail and 3rd Party App

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Published on 2010-04-19T17:11:15Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 17:13 UTC
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Google Talk video chat only works in Gmail (because that makes sense, right?); however, other IM apps (I'm using Empathy specifically) support video chat over Google Talk.

But can you use video chat outside your 'client'? Can someone on Gmail video chat with someone on Empathy?

I'm having problems doing that, and suspect it may because of an older (but certainly not that old) version of Empathy. But before I start troubleshooting I just wanted to make sure ti's possible. Because I believe at one time, it wasn't - correct?

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