Can't see video in iChat

When I add a buddy I do not see their video icon. We both have google talk. We can video conference in google talk. When I initiate an iChat session I only see my video.

Hi,
Most Jabber Apps that can Video and Audio Chat do so using a Protocol called Jingle.
GoogleTalk is a Jabber server and Google's version of Jingle is in their PC standalone apps that is also called GoogleTalk.
The Protocol is also used in the Plug-in for Web Browsers that you an get for Macs (Intel Only) and PCs
This will let a Mac Video to someone else using a Web Browser or the Standalone PC app.
The Google Version is not that compatible with other Jabber apps either.
Jingle is completely different from the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) that iChat and AIM use.
Jingle and SIP will NOT connect together.
iChat CAN Video chat using Jabber or Google Names if both ends have iChat.
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My girlfriend and I just got new MacBook Pros and we videochat in iChatAV. It all was working great but today the video stopped working. When I send her a video chat invitation or she send me one i can only see myslef on the screen. I can hear her fine and she can both see and hear me, but I can never see her. Her camera seems to work since she is able to take picutures in photobooth with the integrated camera. When she checks the preferences in the iChat she can also see herself on the screen and the video seems to work fine. However, as soon as we try to have a video conference the video fails. When she tries to check the video settings in preferences again she finds a pitch black screen. We tried to solve the problem but can't really get around it since everything seems to work fine and all the hardware from both systems are identical and integrated into the MacBook Pro. What should we do?

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Can I do anything about it?
None of the following works...
Starting garageband, starting photobooth, removing all ichat plist files.
I'll try the 10.4.6 update again, but I'm not optimistic.
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deltajane wrote:
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HI,
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My friend and I both have new macs, and she is in the northern woods of Wisconsin, but she has internet, and we can connect with video chat, but I can't see her. She can see me though. All I see is myself? Any reason why that would be?

Hi,
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Ummm,
Odd.
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