Videocall App for Raspberry 3

[narraccino]

Hi,
are there videocall apps for Raspberry 3?

I can understand that Skype is heavy for Raspberry but i can use another app.

[fruitoftheloom]

Hi,
are there videocall apps for Raspberry 3?

I can understand that Skype is heavy for Raspberry but i can use another app.

https://www.linux-projects.org/uv4l/

[pintun]

UV4L looks like something different than an application to make video calls.
Does it mean there is no real application for doing that with a Raspberry?
Or is there a more specific guide/site explaining how to use UV4L for making video calls?

[tpylkko]

Debian has linphone, so I would presume that Raspbian also does, but I haven't used it on an rpi. I have used it on a Debian laptop and on android.

Also, there are web based ones like Google and Skype, but they might be too heavy for rpi, once again never tried.

It might be that anything without UV4L will not use hardware acceleration, in which case it will be horrible for video.

[DougieLawson]

There's an article on this in MagPi Mag issues #26 & #28

https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/MagPi26.pdf
https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/MagPi28.pdf

A good starting point is http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org