Has anyone got the audio/video call functionality to work with the CentOS 7 Pidgin packages? I primarily interested in Skype for Business/Office Communicator, but if you have anything else set up that supports audio/video, that may also be of interest.

I recently tried to join a “scheduled conference”, and got a (working)
chat window, but didn’t get any sound, and nobody else heard me. And there were no traces of video. I got an additional window with two sound-level bars, with a status line saying “Calling…”, which seemed to get no further.

I’ve tried “Test call” from the Accounts, with a similar result – a new window saying “Calling…”, but no further progress.

I then went ahead and tried “Call a phone number…”, again from Accounts, and entered my cell phone number. Then got the “Calling…”
window again, and an actual call to the mobile phone. But when I
answered it, nothing much happened. The Pidgin window was unchanged, i.e. there was nothing to indicate that the call had been connected, and I couldn’t hear any sound at either end. Also, there was no call signal or anything in Pidgin before I picked up.

So, has anyone tried this functionality? Any luck? What’s supposed to happen when I make a “Test call”, anyway?

Thanks.

– Toralf