Receiving Webcam on Kopete

[ninique305]

I can send my webcam over Kopete just fine but whenever one of my contacts sends me theirs, I get a blank window. I read this on the Kopete documentation:

I can't receive any webcam stream from my buddies; what's wrong ?
MSN webcam support is not NAT-friendly. Check your NAT router and forward the MSN Webcam port to your computer port on which Kopete is listening for webcam (see Configure/Accounts/MSN/Connection).

But I don,t understand it. What's a NAT router ? What port am I supposed to set the webcam to?

[eriefisher]

Re: Receiving Webcam on Kopete

First question, do you use a router?

If yes, do you have the documentation for it?

[ninique305]

Re: Receiving Webcam on Kopete

No I don't use a router. I've a DSL modem that's plugged directly into my ethernet card.

[eriefisher]

Re: Receiving Webcam on Kopete

Well then a nat router is not the problem. I would check in the connection settings of kopete. Unfortunately I don't use it so I can't give you a "change this" answer but I'll bet it's in the settings.

eriefisher

[ninique305]

Re: Receiving Webcam on Kopete

Well in the settings, the only thing that seems relevant is a checkbox that says "Specify a base port for incomming webcam connections" and then a box next to it where you write the port (currently set at 6891).

I dunno if it might be a firewall problem. . .I haven't downloaded a firewall program from the repositories. . . but that seems like it's the only logical cause >.>

[SheeEttin]

Re: Receiving Webcam on Kopete

Well, if you don't have a firewall set up, that probably isn't the problem.

What protocol are you using for the webcam (e.g. MSN, AIM)?

[myNigga]

Re: Receiving Webcam on Kopete

I could never get Kopete to work with my webcam, sending or receiving. Black screen all the time.
Installed aMSN and everything worked. Just FYI, aMSN is not capable of full-duplex, that is, you can't receive and send webcam at the same time. See if Kopete also has this limitation.

[ninique305]

Re: Receiving Webcam on Kopete

What protocol are you using for the webcam (e.g. MSN, AIM)?

MSN, mostly. I have some contacts from other protocols but I don't use webcam with them.

I tried out aMSN but I really don't like the interface, I find it really confusing. Webcam works on it though. . . so for now if one of my friends really has to send me a webcam feed, I'll switch to that. But I really would rather be using Kopete.