To open the Address
book, select the address book icon from the left side of the Ekiga window. Add ILS servers and
friends to that window, and then select the user or server you want to contact and click Contact???
Call Contact.
Use the tabs beneath the video window to adjust your audio levels and video appearance. The
History tab shows a log of your activities.
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FIGURE 20-8
Connect to ILS servers to videoconference with Ekiga.
Watching Movies and Video
Although several fairly high-quality video players are available for Linux, it is rare to see the players
included in formal distributions because of legal complications. The issues surrounding the playing
of encoded DVD movies in Linux might be responsible for keeping players such as the MPlayer
(freshmeat.net/mplayer), Ogle (www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd), and xine (http://
xinehq.de/) video players out of common distributions.
By most accounts, however, you can get and use these video players to play a variety of video content
for personal use as long as you don??™t download and use the DeCCS (software for decrypting
DVD movies). The following sections provide descriptions of some commonly used video players.
Watching Video with xine
The xine player is an excellent application for playing a variety of video and audio formats.
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