I recently installed Mavericks and now I can't video chat with sister who has ichat, is there a fix?

Is ichat on an older machine compatible with Mavericks Messages video chatting?  Is there something I can do to video chat with someone who has ichat on an older machine?  They aren't going to upgrade so am I stuck with Skype?  We really liked ichat.

Yes, I can video chat with someone on Skype.  I only ichat with my younger sister and she doesn't ichat with anyone else.  I don't have anyone else to try out the video chatting with in Messages.  She's not tech savy and doesn't feel comfortable doing anything to her program.  A friend may try to get her up and running on Skype, we just liked chatting with the Mac programs.

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