Built in isight - how to activate in chat rooms

Hi. I'm a new MacbookPro user and am pretty new to using isight. It works in Yahoo ok. Mac version of MSN does not seem to have provision for webcam and I can't activate the camera in chat rooms with webcam facility.
Any ideas?

Hi Mario
For MSN.
Try Mercury http://www.mercury.to/
Or aMSN http://amsn.sourceforge.net/
Both do video but no audio.
For chat rooms see if this thread helps http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=988974&tstart=0
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