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June 23rd, 2003, 04:47 PM
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| iChatAV -- Cool, but useless iChatAV looks like a great piece of software. It is however, useless. I suspect that there are many people here in the same situation as me. I have a Mac and iChatAV. The problem is that I don't know a single other person that has a Mac, and there are 150 people on my buddy list. Unless Apple releases iChatAV for windows, I will never get to use the cool features of this program. At least they added spell check, and a text box that automatically expands. Anyone else going to have the same problem?
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June 23rd, 2003, 04:55 PM
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| Maybe you didn't see the Keynote, but iChat AV uses established standards for both the audio and video transfers. So, theoretically, AOL, MSN, or any other 3rd party could implement the ability to communicate with iChat AV in to their application. I've used video conferencing on Windows, and man - I can tell you - it's cool, but it's more trouble than what it's worth. I show this implementation to 3 family members in different parts of the country and tell them how we can talk for free, or even video conference for free and they can see my new daughter anytime they wish, and they will be lining up to buy a new Mac for that purpose alone. Useless? Hardly.
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June 23rd, 2003, 05:01 PM
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| It's not compatible with my camera (a Logitech Pro 3000), which does work with other programs on my mac. I also have near 200 people on my buddy list, one of which is another mac user. I can voice-chat with him, but video won't work for either of us. Has anyone had any success getting the video function to work? If you have, what camera are you using (obviously isight would work but I mean 3rd party cameras). Last edited by WinWord10; June 23rd, 2003 at 05:06 PM. |
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June 23rd, 2003, 05:08 PM
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| Video seems to work for me, at least I can see my pic in the preferences. I have a FirewireDirect Firewire webcam. Anyone want to test, my .mac.com name is maktek.
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June 23rd, 2003, 05:12 PM
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| I don't have a .mac account, but my AIM name is ** Edited ** . lol just don't want to be recieving voice chats all night. No problem if you already did... it was kinda fun talking to other macosx.com users actually =) Last edited by WinWord10; June 24th, 2003 at 02:13 AM. |
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