Best Way to Video Chat iMac-to- PC

What is the best way to video chat between my wife's iMac and her mom's Vista PC? I was going to use Windows Live on the PC and Messenger on the iMac, but after installing Messenger and setting up a personal account, discovered that Messenger for Mac with a personal account does not support video; IM only! Crap. So, before I start installing other applications on either computer, and setting up accounts all over the place, I am hoping for some solid advice on the best way to go. My preference is to install the least applications on either computer, so anything we can do with what's already there is preferred.
Option 1 is to use Windows Live on the PC (it's ready to go) and put something on the iMac that will work with that. But, I can't find anything that will.
Option 2 is use iChat on the iMac, and install something on the PC. What works? What is best?
Option 3 is install Skype on both. Looks like that will work, but will it??
Thanks!!

iChat can use a GoogleMail ID as a an Jabber ID in iChat and then it will Video chat to other iChat users that are also using a GoogleMail ID.
iChat uses just one set of Video and Audio codecs whether you are starting from the AIM Buddy List (the ones that login to the AIM server even if the Screen Name is from Apple) or a Jabber one or the Bonjour one.
Jabber servers on the whole (if they are doing Video and Audio) are using their own codecs called Jingle.
GoogleMail Video form their web page does something different in that it uses Flash to control your Camera and mic via the Web Browser.
It appears that this will however connect to PC users using the GoogleTalk App.
The TokBox site allows you to at least link your current MSN, Yahoo, AIM or Jabber IDs (Shows you separate Buddy Lists) and uses Flash like the GoogleMail web page.
I have not used it enough to see if it will Video form the Web Page to an App or if the other person also has to use a Web Browser.
9:31 PM Monday; December 29, 2008

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