[iBook] Video conf on iBooks

[Angus Wallace]

>
> I hate to have so many IM programs installed and running at once.  
> Somebody
> should make just ONE that is compatible with all of them and supports 
> the
> voice and video features :)

Unfortunately, this is difficult. None of the proprietry protocols want 
to encourage people not to use their client. All the protocols are 
different, and as they release new clients, they often deliberately try 
to break the 'free' clients.

'fire' (http://fire.sourceforge.net/) is a client that supports many 
different protocols, but unfortunately not for voice/video 
conferencing.

There is an open-source protocol called jabber 
(http://www.jabber.org/), but I don't know if it supports voice/video. 
Clients exist for most/all operating systems (Mac, Lin, Win at least). 
Fire supports Jabber.

HTH,
-Angus

>
> Tom
>
>> From: Jean-Paul Thuot <fearsome.orange at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Jean-Paul Thuot <fearsome.orange at gmail.com>, "A place to 
>> discuss
>> Apple's iBook computers." <ibook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:20:38 +0800
>> To: "A place to discuss Apple's iBook computers."
>> <ibook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Subject: Re: [iBook] Video conf on iBooks
>>
>> Check out Yahoo Messenger....
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:05:24 -0600, Tom Legare 
>> <Tom.Legare at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>  I haven't seen this come up before, but I've got to believe this 
>>> topic is
>>> coming more and more of a curiousity for us iBook owners looking to 
>>> video
>>> conference with our Windows long lost cousins.
>>>
>>>  My iBook is only a G3/500, so iChat A/V will not let me hook up an 
>>> iSight
>>> camera.
>>>
>>>  Now I have done video many times in the Windows world, and these 
>>> are the
>>> combinations that seem to work:
>>>
>>>  AIM: You can do video if you are running Windows XP only
>>>  MSN Messenger: You can do video if you are running Windows 2000 or 
>>> Windows
>>> XP
>>>
>>>  So...my questions are:
>>>
>>>
>>> Will any generic USB or Firewire camera work with my iBook 500 with 
>>> iSight
>>> since Apple's iSight camera requires at least an iBook 600?
>>> I don't see any video conferencing option in Mac's MSN Messenger 
>>> (ver 4.0.1
>>> currently), will MSN Messenger for Mac do video?
>>> What have people found is the best option for Mac to Mac video 
>>> conferencing
>>> if you can't use iChat A/V?
>>> What have people found is the best option for Mac to Windows video
>>> conferencing... MSN Messenger?  AIM?  Is there a Windows version of 
>>> iChat
>>> A/V?
>>> What potholes should I be aware of?
>>>
>>>  Thanks!
>>>
>>>  Tom
>>>
>>>
>>>
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