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iSight camera settings on MBP.
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Hi,
I went to a computer store and played a little with iChat on MBP. I opened up a video window and tried to configure the camera to send video at 30fps, but I couldn't find a setting to do that. The video I saw in the window had definitely lower rate, the movement wasn't smooth. When I use a Philips webcam connected to Windows PC I can set the video transfer rate up to 60fps, that's of course the rate the camera gives me. Can video transfer rate be set in iChat on MBP, and if so what's the max rate MBP can handle?
Also, is there an iChat version for Windows XP, so that communication can be established between Apple Mac and Windows XP both running iChat?
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I don't believe there is any such setting, but the preview video isn't necessarily indicative of the rate that the video is being transmitted at. I think it may scale the framerate depending on the bandwidth available.
No, there is no Windows version of iChat, although I have heard of some people using iChat with other clients.
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iChat uses the AIM network, I think a Mac/iSight/iChat user can chat to a PC user who's using the AOL client. Not 100% sure though.
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They can chat, yes. The thing I'm not sure about is video. But there are other threads about that elsewhere, I believe.
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Technically, iChat and AIM are compatible for video. It didn't work for me, but I have a hunch that was a firewall problem on the other end. You can also use Yahoo IM, which works on both Macs and PCs, and I think the third party aMSN will work with the MSN network.
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Thanks for the answers. Icruise, you said that "it may scale the framerate depending on the bandwidth available", so my question is what is the max framerate iSight can give with iChat/Skype with 3Mb/s broadband connection? I didn't find any specification wrt max framerate for iSight on MBP on Apple website.
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Well, the iSight product page says "up to 30 frames per second." That's really all I know. I'm not positive if that holds true with the built-in ones.
http://www.apple.com/isight/
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