Re: Webcam
- From: Spat <spat@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 06:50:10 GMT
I have been wrestling with this too, and there's no easy answer. I have
researched in depth the problem of getting iChat to work with AIM, but very
very few people have been able to do so, and I have not. I have tried
several video chatting apps, but the only thing that has worked so far is
having both people using Yahoo Instant Messenger, but this is far from
perfect -- the Mac user gets a very herky jerky video feed from the PC user,
but the PC user gets a half-decent feed from the iChat user if s/he uses an
iSight camera (by far the best one out there). Supposedly, there are some
video conferencing clients available that have good quality video but which
require the use of a paid service as a go-between, but I refuse to pay for
this.
One day video chat between PC and Mac will work well, and I believe it will
happen soon. But just to show your wife that Macs are indeed great, try
establishing an iChat-to-iChat video chat with another Mac user -- she will
be amazed at the vastly superior experience over PC chatting. You can find
other Mac video chatters using a freeware application called Masq (which can
be found at Versiontracker.com). I believe Masq's main purpose is
introducing iChatters who wish to "enjoy" themselves privately, but I had no
problem finding nice people in faraway lands who merely wished to meet new
people. I used it only once, but for the same purpose mentioned above -- to
show my PC wife that Mac is a superior platform for video chatting. Good
luck.
On 11/16/05 10:22 AM, in article BFA17DBA.1581%m_vasnani@xxxxxxxxxxx,
"Mahesh Vasnani" <m_vasnani@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi guys
> I am a new to the Mac Platform. Like most people hv been on a windows
> platform for nearly 10 yr or windows 3.0 whichever is first. I been working
> on windows inside out and decide to try this
>
> However one of the main thing disappointing me was the lack of mac to pc web
> cam support on msn or any program.
>
> I believe the new AOL is the solution. I tried one two other option which
> turned out very complicated. Does anyone has any simple one which I can pass
> on to my wife who isnt a techie and reminds me each day of the money wasted
> on my ibook.
>
> Mahesh
>
.
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