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    <desc>
      Start a video conversation with one of your contacts.
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    <credit type="author">
      <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
      <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
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      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
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  <title>Start a video conversation</title>

  <p>If you have a webcam, you can call your contacts and have an video
  conversation with them.  This features 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>From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, click the
      <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/camera-web.png">video call</media>
      icon next to the name of the contact you wish to call and choose <gui style="menuitem">Video Call</gui>.  
      Alternatively, right click the contact and choose <gui style="menuitem">Video Call</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>A new window will open. When the connection is established, you will
      see <gui>Connected</gui> at the bottom of the window, along with the
      total conversation time.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        To end the conversation, click on <gui style="button">Hang up</gui>.
      </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>, or click the
    <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/camera-web.png">video call</media>
    toolbar button to deselect it.</p>
  </note>
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