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7 Replies Last post: Oct 4, 2002 6:43 AM by Visions_of_them

maranellof1

362 posts since
Aug 14, 2002

Oct 4, 2002 1:36 AM

Web cams and video chatting????

i have not been able to find any good web cams compatible with os x.... does anyone know of any, prefferably logitech or intel...

and once i find one of those, then what to use it on.... let's face it, most of the time i will be chatting with someone on a windows machine and the only thing that i can think of as far as an im client goes that is on both windows and mac that is universally used is msn messenger... the xp version has integrated video chat... but i can't find that anywhere in messenger v. 3.0... any thoughts, solutions... thanx...

Nobody

58,347 posts since
Oct 18, 2007

1. Oct 4, 2002 2:07 AM

in response to: maranellof1

Re: Web cams and video chatting????

Apple should release iChat for all platforms free and give user texting using there phone number, messeging, file transfer, voice chat, video chat

all FREE and all work on OS X, PPC, XP, Unix, Linux, Palm.

and all you need to use this is to register and get a user name, not tied to a network like AOL,

I mean in the UK, i knw noone who uses AOL.

maranellof1

362 posts since
Aug 14, 2002

2. Oct 4, 2002 4:47 AM

in response to: Nobody

Re: Web cams and video chatting????

sounds great but it doesn't really matter what we think that they SHOULD do... if we are talking about SHOULD, then they SHOULD make ichat compatible with all, msn, icq, yahoo, and aol im.... and make it video compatible... but it's not and they aren't.... so my question again... any harware webcams, and any crossplatform software video chatting??????

Altos

211 posts since
May 5, 2002

3. Oct 4, 2002 4:57 AM

in response to: maranellof1

Re: Web cams and video chatting????

If you want something cross platform, you will probably end up connecting to NetMeeting (on the windows side). NetMeeting uses a standard called H.323 so you will need to start from that to find a software program that is compatible and then find a webcam that is compatible with the software you chose.

Look a this (rather outdated) page: http://www.onenet.net/ops/h323/323mac.html

or here:http://www.openh323.org/h323_clients.html

A search for: "H.323" Mac
using google also yields interesting results.

10-04-2002: Message edited by: Altos