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      type="topic" style="task"
      id="video-call">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#audio-video"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="audio-video"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="audio-call"/>
    <desc>
      Start a video conversation with one of your contacts.
    </desc>
    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-02" status="stub"/>
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      <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-09-04" status="done"/>
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    <revision pkgversion="3.2" version="0.4" date="2011-12-18" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.8" version="0.4" date="2013-04-15" status="review"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
      <email its:translate="no">milo@ubuntu.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>

    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>
  </info>
  <title>Start a video conversation</title>

  <p>If you have a webcam, you can call your contacts and have a video
  conversation with them. This feature only works with certain types of
  accounts, and it requires the other person to have an application that
  supports video calls.</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Right-click on the contact that you want to call and select
      <gui style="menuitem">Video Call</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>A new window will open. When the connection is established, you will
      see the total conversation time at the bottom of the window.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>To end the conversation, click on the <gui style="button">hang
      up</gui> button.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <note style="tip">
    <p>To turn a video conversation into an audio conversation, choose
    <guiseq><gui style="menu">Video</gui><gui style="menuitem">Video Off</gui></guiseq>.</p>
  </note>

  <section id="video-meta-contact">
    <title>Start a video conversation with a meta-contact</title>
    <steps>
      <item>
        <p>
          From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, right-click on the meta-contact.
        </p>
      </item>
      <item>
        <p>
          Select the contact you want to have the conversation, and from the menu
          select <gui style="menuitem">Video Call</gui>.
        </p>
      </item>
    </steps>
    <note style="tip">
      <p>
        To recognize if a contact is a <em>meta-contact</em>, move your mouse on
        a contact in the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, and stop over it for a
        second: a small pop-up message will appear showing the number of the
        contacts that form the meta-contact.
      </p>
    </note>
  </section>
</page>