[lostlogin]

> I've recently given Linux another try, for use on a machine meant as a media server

Your media server is doing a lot more than serving up music/movies/tv isn’t it? If not, it’s hard to go past Plex or Kodi.

Is video calling a thing that people call on a media server for?

I’d be airplaying to the tv, but that’s going the Apple route.

[BlackFingolfin]

With "media server" I generally meant: "device hooked up to the speaker and AV receiver for video playback, couch surfing, perhaps the occasional game (mostly via emulators).

Yeah, adding the microphone and camera is going beyond that, but it's convenient to use the computer already hooked to the TV instead of, you know, hooking up yet another one. Also, how does Airplay give me access to the camera mounted on top of the TV (an old phone, BTW)? Also, how is that relevant for my comment at all? :-)

[lostlogin]

Airplay can share a screen and through that it can share a FaceTime call - or at least I thought it could and Googling suggests it can. This entirely depends on your ‘old phone’ being an iPhone.

www.macrumors.com/how-to/mirror-facetime-call-apple-tv-airplay-2-smart-tv/amp/

> Also, how is that relevant

It isn’t particularly, I’d just never heard of a media server doing video chat and was wondering about it.