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Video chat in OS X?
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2002
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Whats works for video chat in OS X? Video chat on Windows is simple, every chat client supports it and works (how well it works is another question, but it works still). I have not found anything similar for OS X. Regular clients (MSN, Yahoo, AIM) for OS X suck ... Fire is the best (free) solution that I found, but it does not support video and voice chat.
iChat AV ... works with ... iChat AV, which does not run on Windows and very few people have it becuase it not free ... I am one of those people.
Thanks.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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- Yahoo Messenger (no audio)
- iVisit (ugly)
- ohphoneX (didn't try it myself)
- iSpQ (not free)
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Supposedly with the new version of AIM for windows you can do audio chat with people on Windows. Hopefully video will come soon too.
I know I just saw a CU-Seeme type of client for the Mac on versiontracker or someplace. Try that. I believe you can get video to work with Yahoo Messeger. I'v e heard people getting it to work with an iSight. iChat IS free if you have Panther
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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yahoo messenger is the only cross platform video-chat capable app we have right now ... decent enough and free that is.
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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i use yahoo for all my windows friends and ichat.
i wish they were all as good as ichat. smooth video/voice over the atlantic to london.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: London'ish
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I use iChat AV and also iVisit quite a lot. Yes it's ugly and clunky. But does work reasonably well between Macs & PC's. It's free, but there is a plus option which you pay for, and allows for bigger video's amongst other things.
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Originally posted by typoon:
Supposedly with the new version of AIM for windows you can do audio chat with people on Windows. Hopefully video will come soon too.
This isn't what I've heard. I heard that you can tell in iChat that someone on windows is capable of doing voice chat, but the phone icon is dimmed and you can't actually connect to them. People are hoping, since the latest version of AIM is still beta, that it will work in the near future. However, I don't think AOL has actually said whether it will or not.
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