Yahoo! Messenger Tutorials

Placing and Receiving Video Calls

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Placing a Video Call

With Yahoo! Messenger’s free video calling, all you need is a webcam and headset to place an Internet video call from your PC to another Messenger user’s PC anywhere in the world (you must both be using Messenger 10). To optimize your audio and video equipment, use the setup wizard as described in the Introducing Messenger’s Voice and Video Features tutorial.

Tip: You can’t place video calls to contacts outside the Yahoo! network, such as your Windows Live™ Messenger contacts and your Pingbox™ visitors.

Important: Emergency calling services, such as 000, are not available through PC-to-PC calling. Inform others who use this product that they must dial emergency numbers through traditional phone lines or mobiles.

 

Here’s How

  1. Begin a video call in one of the following ways:

    • From your Messenger List: Click the person’s display image to open the contact card, then click the video call icon or select Start Video Call from the contact’s right-click menu.

      Click the video call icon in the contact card.

    • From your conversation window: If you’re already conversing with a friend, click the Video Call icon at the top of the conversation window.

      Click a the Video Call option in the conversation window.

    Messenger places the video call. When your contact accepts, the video opens in the conversation window. Your contact’s side of the call displays in the full screen and your side of the call displays in the thumbnail at the bottom.

    The video call displays in the conversation window.

  2. You can adjust the view through a variety of controls as shown in the task Managing Your View.

  3. To mute your microphone or speaker, click the appropriate icon.

    Click the microphone or speaker to mute the option.Muted microphone.

  4. Either of you can end the call by clicking the End Call button.

    Click the End Call button.

 

What’s Next

You can place a video call with anyone using Yahoo! Messenger 10, even if they don’t have a webcam. They will see your image, but you won’t see their image.

What you see.

What your friend sees.

 

Help Topics

 
 

Words to Know

  • Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email or instant message.
  • Conversation: an exchange of instant messages between you and a contact.
  • Pingbox: an embedded box on a Web page where visitors to the page can send you instant messages and which lists visitors on your Messenger List.
  • Video call: a call in which you can hear and see the person your talking with.
  • Windows Live™ Messenger: Microsoft® Windows’ free instant messaging application.