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I don't use MSN
but there's something called "mercury" that you need,
Someone else should know more about it
or do a search in these forums
but there's something called "mercury" that you need,
Someone else should know more about it
or do a search in these forums
I've tried Mercury Messenger, but it doesn't seem to detect my iSight. I've found another IM client, aMSN. It does detect my iSight, and I guess the interface is alright. But, the video quality is not too good, so I was wondering if it is possible to fix this problem in any way...
Thank you for your help.
Thank you for your help.
G99 said:
Mine too. It's blocked by my router even though I've forwarded ports. But it's still one step up on the Mac BU over at Microsoft
Is it possible for you to see the other recipient's webcam data? I can see that, but they can't see mine. Could my firewall possibly be blocking this?neonblue2 said:
EDIT: I found these instructions on the aMSN FAQ site:
You are firewalled or behind a router
If you are unable to view a webcam in aMSN after a contact has send you an invite, or after you have issued the command to receive/send webcam, and you are behind a router, you may need to follow these steps:
If you receive: IP-Restrict-NAT and you receive false in webcam wizard, that means your connection is firewalled. (does not send the IP)
If this is the case, you will need to open some ports for the webcam to use because they are currently blocked.
To do this, open your router web-based configuration (check router manual for details on this). Once you have the web-based configuration open, browse for a setting called "port forwarding" or "port range forwarding" or something similar to that. (This might be found under the advanced features for your router).
Now that you have the port forwarding page open, you will want to set the port forwarding range so that aMSN will be able to accept and send the webcam stream.
Here's an example of how you will set up your port forwarding:
Application: aMSN
Start: 6890
End: 6900
Protocol: Both(TCP & UDP)
IP: xxx.xxx.x.xxx
Enabled: X (Yes/True)
Note: xxx.xxx.x.xxx is the IP of your machine that you are trying to send / receive webcam
If you have a web server open on your port 80, you can try to disable it too, sometimes it helps.
General port instructions for Apple Airport Base Station or Airport Express (of course, use ports 6891 to 6900 in the configurations)
http://www.blueskyis.com/bittorrent/airportforwarding.php
Does anyone know how to allow aMSN to access ports 6890 to 6900 (the instructions in black)?
Any help would be appreciated.
wasnt ohphone compatible with MSN messenger's video conferencing at one point?
from macupdate
"ohphoneX is a Cocoa wrapper for ohphone. ohphone, part of OpenH323 project, is a command line program that does H.323 conferencing. The binary version of ohphoneX also comes with a pre-compiled ohphone. You don't need to install PWLib and OpenH323 before using this application. ohphoneX is targeted as a simple Mac-to-Mac and Mac-to-Phone voice only communication tool, some features will not be provided, but will be included in another application. It provides Mac-to-Mac, Mac-to-PC (NetMeeting and GnomeMeeting compatible) audio communication, as well as Mac-to-Phone through Internet telephony providers that allow you access their H.323 call gateway."
MSN used to use netmeeting (which ohphone supports) for that stuff i thought. maybe it still does...just hides it better. dunno. i dont keep up with msn because its crap.
why not just have your PeeCee friends get Skype? its free and has really good quality video/audio...but is a bit of a cpu hog. they could also get AIM for AIM to iChat, but overall to me Skype is much easier for cross platform video conferencing.
from macupdate
"ohphoneX is a Cocoa wrapper for ohphone. ohphone, part of OpenH323 project, is a command line program that does H.323 conferencing. The binary version of ohphoneX also comes with a pre-compiled ohphone. You don't need to install PWLib and OpenH323 before using this application. ohphoneX is targeted as a simple Mac-to-Mac and Mac-to-Phone voice only communication tool, some features will not be provided, but will be included in another application. It provides Mac-to-Mac, Mac-to-PC (NetMeeting and GnomeMeeting compatible) audio communication, as well as Mac-to-Phone through Internet telephony providers that allow you access their H.323 call gateway."
MSN used to use netmeeting (which ohphone supports) for that stuff i thought. maybe it still does...just hides it better. dunno. i dont keep up with msn because its crap.
why not just have your PeeCee friends get Skype? its free and has really good quality video/audio...but is a bit of a cpu hog. they could also get AIM for AIM to iChat, but overall to me Skype is much easier for cross platform video conferencing.
I'm using Mercury Messenger with iSight, though I don't have a separate router to configure, I've made sure that the Mac OS X firewall is configured to allow MSN Messenger traffic. If you haven't done this, you go to System Preferences->Sharing->Firewall->New... and add the predefined MSN Messenger.