Unfortunately the ones of us who happen to have friends, colleagues and family who don't know better will have to put up with all this, since there are real alternatives around.and as long as there are several major IM systems out there, there will always be need for a good multimessenger that covers it all.! But that will probably always stay wishful thinking. The (German) localization has several errors, the GUI gets messed up occasionally, video - although it generally works - seems to bring down the app occasionally and the whole thing has crashed on me numerous times. While this app is generally better (albeit uglier) and has more features than the original client from M$ it still has lots of problems.! First of all for some reason it takes like forever to launch.!? Then it places that stupid downloads folder on my Desktop, even though I have changed that setting in the prefs countless times.aaargh.! Then just play the entire session you need to convert and save it with any screen recorder.It's really a shame that so many people (yeah, mostly Windows users) are so focussed on MSN as their primary IM and thus force so many others to use it as well.! Then compile (both tcl-dev and tk-dev are required, works with 8.6, and a plain “./configure” is enough) and install, and you’ll have that menu item enabled even while being disconnected. (you can do the same with line 5093 and you’ll be able to easily read logs) $conts add command -label “” -command -state disabled Go grab the source code of amsn from and, before compiling, edit file “gui.tcl” and remove the “-state disabled” part from line 5095: ![]() So you need to enable that menu while being disconnected. ![]() Of course, as MSN is already dead, the program won’t connect and won’t let you see the history of webcam records. The solution for that is to go back to the original aMSN player. While vlc is able to keep on playing (and/or converting/SOUT’ing) eventually crashes sooner or later. Sometimes that, even working, fails for some recorded files, as it seems that resolution changes occur within the recorded video and avconv dies. com/blog/0/tutorial-convert-amsn-webcam-sessions/.You can install the “libmimic” library using apt-get and use a video player like VLC to see them, however you will see that the player is quite slow and unable to seek the videos, therefore converting those files to another format would be advisable.ĭuring the years, some different software have been created to allow a simple and smooth conversion, however these are now not easily found on the internet, and even if you find them, you cannot easily install them in Ubuntu anymore due to old dependencies not easily satisfiable.Īnyway, don’t worry! All you need is to install WinFF, download new presets (depending on which libavcodec version you have), configure the screen options as you can see below and click on “Convert”:ĭepending on the size of the file and your computer speed, it will take from a few seconds, to a few minutes, but in the end you will have a nice copy of your webcam sessions! Incoming search terms: These files are encoded using the “mimic” codec and not easily viewable under linux. ![]() Let’s say that you are using aMSN to access Windows Live Messenger and that you have recorded some webcam sessions…Īs you may know, these are normally located at /home/user/.amsn/webcam/ and are files with the extension “cam”.
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