Hmm, I should mention that she will need to open some ports in the
firewall so that IChat will work. The numbers are:
AOL IM port: 5190
Rendezvous Messaging port: 5298
iChat AV port Messaging port: 5060, 16384-16403
iChat Rendezvous port: 5297, 5298
Jerry
On Nov 30, 2004, at 1:23 AM, Jerry Yeager wrote:
> Hello Bill,
>
> Is that PowerBook a G4 model? If so, they may be able to make it work.
> The 600Mhz or faster requirement is for the G3 'Books, folks are
> reporting it working with any G4 'Books (and Apple's site also lists
> any G4)
>
> http://www.apple.com/ichat/
>
> These may be of some help:
>
> http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/isight/iSight_reports.html
> http://www.eqinfo.ucsd.edu/~atul/research/videoconf/videoconf.html
> http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/topic/30479-1.html
> http://www.ispq.com/
> http://www.ecamm.com/mac/iglasses/
>
> To use iChat AV they will need either a .Mac account or use the free
> AIM account (I can report that iChat works quite well with either one,
> though I suggest you throttle the bandwidth settings back from
> "unlimited" to 2Mbps for some ISP connections).
>
> For Yahoo! Messenger, this might be of some help:
> http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14474&vid=104191
> But lost of folks do not like Yahoo! Messenger support for Macs
> ("But what Yahoo Messenger for the Mac doesn't support is Audio! So
> all I could do was exchange video and use the text chat.", " The
> recent "opener" script looks for a preference file (name begins with
> com.yahoo.Messenger.)created by this software in which is stored your
> Yahoo password in simple Base 64 encoding which can be decoded on
> numerous websites such as
> http://www.securitystats.com/tools/base64.php.";) so tread
> cautiously with this one.
>
>
> Jerry
>
> On Nov 29, 2004, at 9:53 PM, Bill Rising wrote:
>
>> Hey Folks,
>>
>> Does anyone know much about Mac to WinWhatever video chat apps?
>> Here's the deal:
>>
>> Step-daughter in Delaware using a 400MHz Powerbook [firewire model]
>> running Mac OS X 10.3.5.
>> Her boyfriend in Iraq, having to use Yahoo! messenger on some sort of
>> Windoze machine.
>> He doesn't care about audio - he'd rather type, because the computer
>> room is a common room, so others would hear everything he said.
>> The computers in the computer room have webcams.
>>
>> I checked out the iSights, but the requirements for using them (at
>> least with iChat) are that the computer be 600MHz or better. I've
>> poked around and found that folks had claimed that the beta version
>> of iChat AV (which I *think* became the new iChat) worked fine on a
>> 500MHz iBook. I've found no claims to have iChat work well with an
>> iSight on a 400MHz Powerbook.
>>
>
> Yes it did, you can download the new version from Apple or get it from
> SUPP. New version again coming out in Tiger.
>
>
>> Does anyone have any ideas about the best sort of webcam to get for
>> the old Powerbook? Ideas about the right configuration of chat
>> programs to use?
>>
>> Thanks for any tips,
>>
>> Bill
>> clueless about video
>>
>>
>>
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