Ichat Audio dropping out

My Ichat audio drops out on video chat with AIM users using Windows (vista)
. It only happens with Ichat not skype or any other program. Whats the issue or fix here?

Hi,
In iChat > Preferences > Video/Audio Section try the Bandwidth at 500kbps.
9:46 PM Sunday; October 17, 2010
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Hi paperchase
That kind of sounds like the right internal speaker is bad or loose and the Internal Mic is picking up on the noise from it.
One thing to try before committing to a 2.0 or 2.1 External Speaker System, is to test the iMac's external output sound with iPod buds or a set of headphones. That at least will give you a better idea if the problem is with the right internal speaker or something worse like the sound card.
Likewise if the repair work was recent, then perhaps you should contact the service provider and report that it came back with an intermittent or rattling right speaker.
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Hi all...
I'm new to this forum.
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Hi Luis,
Thank you for that.
Seems like you have a point about the "hardware" issue. I'm unsure (new to it all) at what data rate my (er...wonderful) fusion drive provides FCPX for smooth playback - or where I can find that info on the iMac. Playing back movies in the 422 HQ codec seems to have no issues (when I converted the movie from 4444 HQ).
But playing the full 4444 HQ, the picture is smooth, but the audio has these drop-outs - even with "best performance" option ticked. Interesting that the audio suffers, not the picture in FCPX - so not sure what's going on there. I also read - perhaps - that to play a smooth ProRes 4444 HQ movie in FCPX the data rate should be min of 500 Mbs (based upon About Apple ProRes) for HD movies and up (i.e. 2k). ProRes 422 HQ needs a data rate of 220 Mbs - so that is my upper-limit to smooth video&audio playback with the current system I have, I guess.
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