Audio chat with iChat (Mac) and Trillian (PC) not working

Question

I use iChat on my Mac (actually, we have tried two different ones with the same results) and the person I want to have an audio chat with is using Trillian Basic (just downloaded) for his PC. We tried using the AIM client on his PC and that didn't work... I looked through the forums and several suggested using Trillian.
We are both able to text chat with each other, but when I try to initiate an audio chat, it tells me almost immediately that the other user has declined my invitation. He never gets an alert. Basically the same thing happens the other way as well.
Any ideas? Is there a setting on the PC that needs to be set for this to work? I can iChat with Audio to other iChat users from my Mac(s), so I am thinking that the PC is the problem.
Thanks!
\frank

Answer 1

Frank
I use iChat to videochat with my sons, who use Trillian on the PC. It's not that easy to set up, opening ports, enabling Trillian through the XP firewall, etc.
You might fare better with Skype. Download from:
Mac version
PC version
If you do want to persist with Trillian (and the results are much better once you've got it set up), try this tutorial:
http://www.mvldesign.com/videoconferencetutorial.html
or this:
http://www.ralphjohnsuk.dsl.pipex.com/
Let us know how you get on.
Dave
PS You can't do audio-only chats between iChat and AIM.