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samuri - Nov 8, 2005 - 8:45 am

Is thee a simple way to video chat between a windows and mac user?
Ican only get 1 avi file to play with quicktime out of dozens I have.
Is there a free program that will paly avi files on a mac?

jghaffner - Nov 9, 2005 - 3:04 pm

Hi Graham,

My name is John, and I'll be trying to help you.

I do not know if there is a simple way to video chat between windows and mac, but, I can point you to a page that talks about how to play avi files:

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/avidivx.html

Let me know how it goes, and I'll do a little research on cross-platform video chat.

John
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John H.
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jghaffner - Nov 9, 2005 - 3:11 pm

Hi Graham,

I'm back again, and found this thread:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13705169

They suggest that iChat on Mac and AIM on Windows should be able to hook up for a video chat.

While this very thorough article says that iChatAV and AIM 5.5 can perform a cross-plaform chat:

http://www.xvsxp.com/applications/chat/

I hope this is helpful. Please let me know how it goes.

John

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John H.
MacOSX.com Volunteer

samuri - Nov 9, 2005 - 6:05 pm

Thanks John, I wont really haver a chance to do anything until sunday time japan.
I found vlc player plays avi in mac