I sent out 2 replies last night, but somehow they didn't go out: i guess i shut down my laptop before the left it. Anyway, i'll send them out later tonight: what i said there is that i got STX to work. My main questions now are: 1. Does built-in mike work on Pro 4000? Are there any tricks i could try to get it to work on STX? 2. I'm not sure about Alexander's response: does 1280x960 work on Pro 4000? What about 640x480? GnomeMeeting has a tooltip about large resolution, where it lists it as 352x288. And i have a feeling that that's what i was getting w/ STX in GM. But maybe this is a GM limitation. I guess i should try vlc or mplayer, and see what resolution they report. But i have serious doubts that 1280x960 could be used on a connection like 384Kbps. I have 5Mbps at home, but my other primary party isn't likely to have high bandwidth. So i probably wouldn't benefit from a max resolution above 640x480. In fact i doubt 640x480 would work well at 384Kbps too. It would probably have to be scaled down to 400x300, or 300x230, etc. 3. The last thing i want to try is how performance and quality compares on Windows. But i got STX to work fairly quckly, so i haven't even tried it on Windows yet. P.S. I'd appreciate if any of you guys made a video conference call w/ me. If you'd like to try, please shoot me a private email. Thanks.