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A Mac to PC USB webcam video chat solution
Authored by: Ubaduba on Jul 13, '05 11:15:01AM

Sounds like you paid a high price for this solution. Wouldn't buying the 150 dollar iSight camera have been much less expensive than the many hours of time you spent working on finding this solution? You would also get 30 frames a second instead of a lathargic 6 frames a second. I video chat with a PC friend 5000 miles away. His video to me is fairly crappy because he is using a USB 1 camera (better than 6 frames a second though) but my video to him is excellent. He uses AIM's AV software and I use iChat. Sometimes it is cheaper to pay in cash rather than blood, sweat and tears.



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A Mac to PC USB webcam video chat solution
Authored by: axello on Jul 14, '05 01:09:27PM

ANY Firewire webcam works out-of-the-box with iChat, IMHO. I have an ADS Pyro 1394 webcam which works fine. Also the Micro iBot works.



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A Mac to PC USB webcam video chat solution
Authored by: chris_on_hints on Jul 16, '05 05:37:56AM

And you can use any camcorder with a firewire link ("iLink")...



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A Mac to PC USB webcam video chat solution
Authored by: zpjet on Oct 19, '05 06:35:42AM

yes any firewire cam, but only with g4 and higher processor:

iChat AV: Does not recognize DV camera on computers with PowerPC G3



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