[CUBE] Audio/Voice conferencing on the web

[Keith Rowland]

I have been investigating this myself over the last 2 weeks.

First of all, Apple did announce a new Beta version of iChat AV that 
will support talking to the new AOL Instant Messenger w/Video Chat. So 
that is one option. Theoretically a Mac user can Video conference with 
a Windows user.

http://www.apple.com/ichat

Prior to that announcement, I researched the field and found 2 
solutions for Mac and Windows Video Conferencing.

http://www.ivisit.info

http://www.ispq.com

Both support and have client software for Mac OS-X and Windows. I've 
used ivisit.info, but haven't gotten isqp working yet due to NAT 
gateway/firewall issues. Both of these guys have community chat rooms. 
ivisit allows multiple people in video chat. ispq has text chat and 
then you invite members to your private chat room.

Either of these should work for you.

KR



On Feb 7, 2004, at 8:50 PM, gooddog at interlync.com wrote:

> A friend of mine and I are collaborating on some kids stories, and 
> want to do a lot of story audio conferencing over the internet. We 
> both have high speed connections (me dsl, him cable), and have tried 
> to use Yahoo Messenger, but cant' make it work. Do I need a special 
> headset with a microphone made for the computer in order to connect to 
> him and talk? What am I missing?
>
> I'm on a Mac with Panther. He's on Windows and XP.  His menu choices 
> include "enable or activate voice", but I have nothing like this.  Has 
> anyone had experience with this or with any other method that's 
> successful?
>
> We have a shareware called Squidcam, but we haven't been able to make 
> this work. We're working with the guy who made it up to help our 
> cause. So far, though, we are dead in the water.
>
> It's frustrating because I've been told by the people at the Apple 
> Store here that "with yahoo! and msn it's real easy to do voice 
> conferencing with a mac."  So far, nothing.
>