MythPhone
From MythTV
MythPhone is the plugin of MythTV that provides you with video call and phone capabilities.
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Why should you use MythPhone
MythPhone makes it possible to have videocalls from your living room on the big (flat)screen. This is a great way to talk to friends and familie. All this is possible just a push away on your remote control.
When you talk with people, face-to-face, kinda like if they were there. It gets you much closer to each other, and its easier, you don't have to type. Combined with a good webcam (e.g. logitech pro 9000) you get excellent results (HD quality). Look out, this is a really addictive feature.
For example is this a nice feature to talk (almost as in real life) to family or friends who living at some distance from you.
MythPhone makes it also possible to have normal phone calls using VOIP (voice over IP).
Features
Videocalls, Fullscreen webcam conversations with good encoding and both video & audio.
Used technology
Phone and Video calls are made using a standard SIP protocol. It will register with the Free World Dialup (FWD) service offered by pulver.com and allows you to make calls from a normal phone to your MythPhone; though it does not let you call the other way.
Other applications for beter results
Because other videocall apps and messengers get more populair, your could consider to use one of them in stead of MythPhone. Some of them have better videoresolution and sound. The only downside to this is that MythTV, at the moment, does not come with an default remotecontrol option for these programs. So you have to configure these yourself.
You can control just about any program with your remote control from MythTV by using Lirc. With this you can bind any key or combination of keyboard keys to an remotecontrol button.
http://www.lirc.org/ - Lirc
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Keybindings#Remote_Controls - Existing keybinding
