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iChat AV Beta and iSight

Originally posted by moorghan
Just used iChat A/V for audio chat with my 450Mhz iMac DV+, 576MB RAM.

No problems except the occasional drop out (56k connection on both ends).

Oh, and did I mention that I am in South Africa and I was chatting with someone in the States?
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sorry, the 600mhz G3 requirement is for video. fortunately for me the statement also implies that any G4 will do. but i also found where it says on the ichat page that you can only audio/video chat with someone else using ichat av. shucks. :\
 
i did an audio chat with somebdoy a few hours away...works GREAT! much better than the talk crap AIM has/

looks like ill still have to use icar though...damn!
 
First off, I see no reason why iChat AV shouldn't be able to run with any computer that runs jaguar. It just seems silly. And also, why not allow USB webcams? If it has an OSX driver, what's holding it back from iChat AV? sure it might not be as high quality as a firewire cam, but it should still work!
 
Originally posted by mnkeybsness
-automatic resizes of the type-box instead of the one-line only
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I was ecstatic to discover that pressing option-return gives you a carriage return in iChat AV. Is this documented anywhere? Is there any other way to get a carriage return?
 
Originally posted by rogueimage
I was ecstatic to discover that pressing option-return gives you a carriage return in iChat AV. Is this documented anywhere? Is there any other way to get a carriage return?
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Option-Return is the way you do that in lots of apps. This is useful for events in iCal, for instance.

I do like the auto-resizing text box. That was a huge complaint about the old iChat.
 
Originally posted by martybogert
hi all -- *long time lurker surfacing*

I was wondering if anyone has tied the voice chat function?

I tried it with my 17" imac and my G4 400. The imac sent to the G4
the G4 received it but the mic wouldn't pick up sound on the G4 and send to the imac.

I'm guessing that the old mic I have on my G4, which came with my performa 6400 isn't compatible. (I know, I know it's a pretty old mic)

I'm wondering if it might require a USB mic as opposed to the old mini-plug type.

hummm.. must test.... will try G3 400 next :)

-martybogert
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exact same thing happened to me. On my old G4 desktop 450, the microphone connected to the audio in plug clearly works at least as far as the sound preference panel is concerned. But it does not send any sound to my G4 powerbook. Meanwhile the powerbook does send sound to the desktop. too bad
 
Re: cross platform?

Originally posted by requies
so all this new video stuff is running on the aim network? so you can only video chat with people using ichat? my girlfriend, who lives far away, still has a pc. (tagic, i know. we're working on it) so unless there's some way to video chat with pc people, the new ichat is useless for me. *sigh* i guess i'm sticking with icky yahoo.
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so yahoo can do video chat cross platform? as i am aware of it there is no video solution for chatting on the mac offered by the big 4: aim yahoo msn icw
 
About the option return thing. Did you try pressing the small enter key - that normally has the same effect as Pressing option-return (or control return on a pc - I'm always joking to my PC friends how they have just the one return key in response to the one mouse button thing!!!)

I'll tell you, typing this message on my fresh Safari, with a dual 2ghz G5 in the pipeline... It's nice to know that Apple's plans are coming together.
 
it looks like it ships with three adaptors and one is for the emac should work fine.
 
Re: Re: cross platform?

Originally posted by h00ligan
so yahoo can do video chat cross platform? as i am aware of it there is no video solution for chatting on the mac offered by the big 4: aim yahoo msn icw
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not video chat, per se, as there's no audio with yahoo, but it does do the video. not at a real great quality, but it is better than nothing.
 
argh!!

i want to try this out so bad... idon't have the iSight yet but my internal powerbook mic is working fine with it.... can someone here get on iChat with me (oh yeah baby!;) ) and check this thing out?? i really want to here the quality. thanks for any help guys,

technocoy
oh yeah... BEST DAY EVER!

my IM is shogunsimian
 
Re: argh!!

Originally posted by technocoy
idon't have the iSight yet but my internal powerbook mic is working fine with it....
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I didn't know there was an internal mic in the PowerBooks. Is there a mic on the FP iMacs? :confused:
 
Re: Compatibility

Originally posted by batmyke
Okay, what's this? I installed iChat AV Beta, and hooked up my dv video camera, but iChat says my computer doesn't support Video Conferencing!! Does anyone know if there are any specific requirements for this? I am running Jaguar 10.2.6 on an iMac DVSE 400 mhz with 640 MB of RAM...
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Yeah, I had the same problem. The weird thing is that my camera works in QuickTime Broadcaster but not in ichat.
Weird!
 
Re: Re: argh!!

Originally posted by MacFan25
I didn't know there was an internal mic in the PowerBooks. Is there a mic on the FP iMacs? :confused:
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Look for a small hole at the top edge of the display (left side, I think).
 
Drat! I would have glady traded videoconferencing for compatibility with ICQ and other IM technologies. Most of my friends and family use ICQ, so that means I have to run two IM clients at the same time. I'd much rather just run iChat.:mad:
 
im pretty sure that the imac, emac, ibook, and powerbooks have internal mics hidden away somewhere. do the cinema displays have mics? itd make sense
 
Re: argh!!

Originally posted by technocoy
i want to try this out so bad... idon't have the iSight yet but my internal powerbook mic is working fine with it.... can someone here get on iChat with me (oh yeah baby!;) ) and check this thing out?? i really want to here the quality. thanks for any help guys,

technocoy
oh yeah... BEST DAY EVER!

my IM is shogunsimian
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I enjoyed chatting live with you.
Real fun software. Now I've got to get some video working! - Paul
 
Re: Compatibility

Originally posted by batmyke
Okay, what's this? I installed iChat AV Beta, and hooked up my dv video camera, but iChat says my computer doesn't support Video Conferencing!! Does anyone know if there are any specific requirements for this? I am running Jaguar 10.2.6 on an iMac DVSE 400 mhz with 640 MB of RAM...
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it requires a 600 mhz machine, sorry man. :(
 
same to you sonofhaig...

this rocks ASS! i wish more of my family and friends had macs... now more than ever. gotta get the iSight next week!
 
ichat not working at all

I try to do a video or audio chat with anyone i know with ichat. It fails, and give me the message "[name] is busy in another conference" on the receiving end it says "[name] did not respond"

any one else having these troubles, or have an idea how to fix them?
 
Has anyone tried the video chat? I don't know anyone with a FW camera and a mac. Not to be too creepy, but in the next 1/2 hour or so, if anyone wants to try it, my IM name is SuperMegaGroov.

I'd like to see how it works.
 
Originally posted by Groovsonic
Has anyone tried the video chat? I don't know anyone with a FW camera and a mac. Not to be too creepy, but in the next 1/2 hour or so, if anyone wants to try it, my IM name is SuperMegaGroov.

I'd like to see how it works.
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umm, yeah, you're all like offline and stuff. :)
 
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