I’ve been helping out Maiku (who’s the Google summer of code student who was tasked with getting voice/video working in Pidgin) to get pidgin-vv working on Windows. We’ve done lots of playing around for the last wee while, but we’ve finally managed to get it working on Windows. Just so you all believe me, here’s a teaser screencast video of me giving Maiku a call.
Cool huh! So far only XMPP (and Skype, kinda) are working but Maiku is hard at work to get all the other protocols working too. Yay! 
#1 by Lycox on 2009-09-07 - 7:44 am
This is awesome. Really looking forward to it
#2 by Ibrahim on 2009-11-09 - 12:56 pm
Cool, any updates on this? I notice it hasn’t made it into any 2.6.x builds on Windows so far…
#3 by Eion on 2009-11-09 - 2:13 pm
Unfortunately, since voice/video needs a newer version of glib than what is supported on Windows, you’ll have to wait for 2.7.0, since that’ll be when a new version of glib will be supported by the Pidgin devs
#4 by Dan Chokola on 2010-03-02 - 12:11 pm
Code?
#5 by Eion on 2010-03-02 - 1:17 pm
The code is all in Pidgin, it’s just compiled with the –enable-vv configure flag.
#6 by Zajec on 2010-04-06 - 2:16 am
Hey, thank you a lot for your work! I’m really waiting for next Pidgin release now
Finally will able to talk with my Windows friends 
#7 by Dan Chokola on 2010-05-16 - 8:46 am
Well, 2.7.0 is out, and video is still disabled in the Windows binary.
Should I whip out my MinGW/MSYS environment and build from source or is there a good reason why video is disabled?
#8 by Eion on 2010-05-16 - 2:06 pm
It wasn’t quite stable enough for 2.7.0 I’m aiming to give the OK to the Pidgin dev’s for 2.7.1… no promises though
#9 by Zajec on 2010-05-17 - 6:47 am
Thanks Eion for info. I hope you’ll able to fix discovered issues
#10 by Jon Moller on 2010-06-01 - 10:28 pm
Now 2.7.1 is out. What now then
Keep up the good work. Pidgin seriously needs this and so do I and lots of other people and you are so few working on it. Thank you so much for your efforts
#11 by Eion on 2010-06-01 - 10:56 pm
2.7.1 came out before I was ready
I’m still working on it and it should definitely be a 2.7.x version that has vv on win32
#12 by Jon Moller on 2010-06-02 - 2:56 am
Thanks for the update
I can hardly wait 
#13 by ThePianoGuy on 2010-06-03 - 11:51 pm
Keep up the work. We are really happy, if Pidgin gets the voice and video support on Windows!
#14 by Frizou on 2010-06-09 - 10:05 am
I hope also this XMPP Win32 video-conferencing version of pidgin will be available soon.
It’s my best candidate to replace Netmeeting and be able to switch to Linux…
I address you all my encouragements!
#15 by Olivier on 2010-06-10 - 1:13 pm
Nice work so far — thanks a ton!
Seems like http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11075 isn’t on the 2.7.2 “roadmap” (http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=new&status=pending&milestone=2.7.2) :/
P-p-p-please make this happen. We can’t wait…
PS: I just sent you some $$, can’t really think of another way to help [and hopefully mentioning this here will inspire other people too]. I’ll be glad to do so again should this cool feature appear in the next Windoze release.
#16 by Nash on 2010-06-16 - 12:35 am
Hello,
You are doing great work, I see. I am happy to read that you’re still onto implementing Video chat on Pidgin for Windows.
But this wait is beginning to feel like torture. I am willing to live with bugs or even an unstable Pidgin if it means I can use the video chat feature. I am sure there are others like me.
Could you at least put out a “Alpha/Beta” build so that we can get cracking?
#17 by TMS on 2010-06-25 - 9:52 am
Yes!
Can you give us a version of Pidgin with the activated videoconference?
Thanks.
#18 by Yann on 2010-06-27 - 7:35 pm
Dear all,
I understood that VV is in development, and I am willing to help by testing and reporting bugs.
What is the procedure to compile this unstable vv-version for windows ? (i am on Ubuntu 10.04, and have vista in dual-boot) Do i need to follow the instruction of http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/UsingPidginMonotone ? i understood i had to “compile Pidgin with the –enable-vv configure flag” , how can I do this?
#19 by ao2 on 2010-08-28 - 7:59 pm
Hi,
are there patches available? Have they been submitted upstream for revision? Please let’s continue the discussion here: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11075
Thanks,
Antonio