Why won't my iSight work with my AIM/AOL buddies? (intel iMac)

M. Malone

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Original poster

• Apr 2, 2006

• #1

I got my intel iMac, love the isight, but it just won't work with my windows friends who are running the LATEST software from AIM or AOL, I can't one way with them, or even have a video conference, at all. how can I get it to work? thanks

 

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TLRedhawke

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• Apr 2, 2006

• #2

The only reason I can think that it might disallow starting any sort of video chat with Windows AIM buddies is that AIM only supports video chatting on Windows XP.

 

stridey

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• Apr 2, 2006

• #3

What software are you running?

 

Flyinace2000

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• Apr 2, 2006

• #4

Jericho2550 said:

I got my intel iMac, love the isight, but it just won't work with my windows friends who are running the LATEST software from AIM or AOL, I can't one way with them, or even have a video conference, at all. how can I get it to work? thanks

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It works with me. I ahve iChat and a friend of mine is on AIM. It works, but it works so so so bad i wish it didn't work at all.

I am waiting for Skype 2.0 to be released for mac. I use 2.0 on windows and it handles video chat very well, much better than AIM

 

M. Malone

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Original poster

• Apr 2, 2006

• #5

stridey said:

What software are you running?

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I'm running the latest iChat, I really wish this video thing can work smoothly

 

khisayruou

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• Apr 4, 2006

• #6

I've seen a ton of posts needing help getting their isight going and I ran across this great tutorial. I figured it might help someone out, seeing that mac and pc isn't exactly a match made in heaven. 😉

Video Conference Tutorial for iChat and AIM by MVL Design

 

stridey

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• Apr 4, 2006

• #7

BTW, your problem may very well be fixed by the recent 10.4.6 update. IIRC, there was something about iChat video connections in the fixes.

 

M. Malone

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Apr 4, 2006

• #8

khisayruou said:

I've seen a ton of posts needing help getting their isight going and I ran across this great tutorial. I figured it might help someone out, seeing that mac and pc isn't exactly a match made in heaven. 😉

Video Conference Tutorial for iChat and AIM by MVL Design

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The tutorial is just excellent, everything was fine on my end, my friend had to follow the firewall steps, I got as far as getting video with no sound, not bad progress! we both couldn't hear each other, I may have to look deeper into it, but this tutorial is great, it will become more important as more people get macs with built in iSights...thanks 😀