IChat video between 2 older Macs

Mom has an older G3 350mhz iMac that has Panther installed (probably has iChat 2, eh?). USB 1.1 here and no firewire. This computer is connected to a cable modem.
I have a 450mhz G4 Cube currently running Tiger with iChat 3.x The Cube has a firewire port and I have a JVC DV camcorder (that I know works with iMovie). I may get a usb 1.1 camera for the cube instead of having the JVC hooked up on a tripod all the time. This machine is connected via DSL.
Just curious if there's a chance we could video conference (even if it is choppy).
Also, is the free AIM option potentially slower if AIM gets bogged down? I can recall using yahoo chat and doing this under os 9.x and I think yahoo chat itself was slowing the connection down.
Is there an easier more direct way to do this with another program (to get a faster connection) instead of having to rely on AIM or .mac - like a way (a program) to connect the computers directly to each other on the net via ip addresses or the like.

Hi mjp29,
You have a slim chance.
This Utility http://www.ecamm.com/mac/ichatusbcam/ can make USB cams work for iChat (Providing they have Mac drivers as well).
The slowest Mac I have read this working for is a G3/400 so it is going to be tight.
RAM is going to be important here as is not running any other application.
If the JVC has a 6 pin to 6 pin firewire connection and it's output is in DV format your end is good to go.
The cable and DSL connections only make a difference if they themselves are too slow.
The Min up and down for 1-1 chats is 100kbps.
Average is at least a 256kbps upload speed.
Multi-chatting in Tiger requires at least 384Kbps in both direction and this should be where you should be aiming at to help this as much as possible.
Quicktime 7 and the H264 codec is what controls the amount of data in each frame and the frame rate based on what your connection speed and processor are capable of.
At the G5Quad processor level that is 30 frames a sec in a window 640 x 480
You MAY get 10fps from your Cube. Less with a USB cam as the processor has to run that as well.
Whether the G3/350 can maintain that will depend on the RAM they have.
As I have said this is going to be very tight and may actually be the step too far.
6:09 AM Saturday; December 30, 2006

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Date/Time: 2008-01-23 20:35:51.339 -0800
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2008-01-23 20:35:06 -0800: AVChat started with ID 4010006563.
2008-01-23 20:35:06 -0800: 0x1020e7f0: State change from AVChatNoState to AVChatStateWaiting.
2008-01-23 20:35:06 -0800: [email protected]: State change from AVChatNoState to AVChatStateInvited.
2008-01-23 20:35:38 -0800: 0x1020e7f0: State change from AVChatStateWaiting to AVChatStateConnecting.
2008-01-23 20:35:38 -0800: [email protected]: State change from AVChatStateInvited to AVChatStateConnecting.
2008-01-23 20:35:48 -0800: 0x1020e7f0: State change from AVChatStateConnecting to AVChatStateEnded.
2008-01-23 20:35:48 -0800: 0x1020e7f0: Error -8 (Did not receive a response from 0x1020e7f0.)
2008-01-23 20:35:48 -0800: [email protected]: State change from AVChatStateConnecting to AVChatStateEnded.
2008-01-23 20:35:48 -0800: [email protected]: Error -8 (Did not receive a response from 0x1020e7f0.)
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Video Conference Support Report:
0.000000 @SIP/Transport.c:2353 type=1 (00000000/0)
[SIP/2.0 200 OK
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 192.168.1.5;branch=z9hG4bK3b770bb024da23e4
To: 0 <sip:[email protected]:16402>;tag=396488263
From: u0 <sip:[email protected]>;tag=333292834
Call-ID: ea0f44a8-c7e1-11dc-92bd-db1e6e2c13c4@192-168-1-5
CSeq: 1 INVITE
Contact: <sip:[email protected]:16402>
User-Agent: Viceroy 1.3
Content-Type: application/sdp
Content-Length: 430
v=0
o=sanaebingham 0 0 IN IP4 192.168.1.7
[email protected]
c=IN IP4 192.168.1.7
b=AS:2147483647
t=0 0
a=hwi:1056:2:2000
a=bandwidthDetection:YES
a=iChatEncryption:NO
m=audio 16402 RTP/AVP 12
a=rtcp:16402
a=rtpID:466551867
m=video 16402 RTP/AVP 126
a=rtcp:16402
a=rtpmap:126 X-H264/90000
a=RTCP:AUDIO 16402 VIDEO 16402
a=fmtp:126 imagesize 0 rules 20:320:240:640:480
a=framerate:20
a=rtpID:3880118170
0.006753 @SIP/Transport.c:347 type=2 (00000000/0)
[ACK sip:[email protected]:16402 SIP/2.0
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Max-Forwards: 70
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From: u0 <sip:[email protected]>;tag=333292834
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CSeq: 1 ACK
User-Agent: Viceroy 1.2
Content-Length: 0
0.007382 @SIP/Transport.c:2353 type=1 (00000000/0)
[SUBSCRIBE sip:[email protected] SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 192.168.1.7:16402;branch=z9hG4bK25d964740defe840
Max-Forwards: 70
To: u0 <sip:[email protected]>;tag=333292834
From: 0 <sip:[email protected]:16402>;tag=396488263
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CSeq: 1 SUBSCRIBE
Contact: <sip:[email protected]:16402>
Event: conference
Expires: 3600
User-Agent: Viceroy 1.3
Content-Length: 0

We do agree that there is a good possibility that the log that was posted is from a Bonjour (ie; local) iChat session.
The 192.168.1.x subnet is part of an address block assigned by the authorized addressing body as Private addresses. They should not be advertised on the public Internet and are NOT routeable across the public Internet. Also, when you mention other logs in these discussions, aren't most of the logs and/or discussions here of scenarios when something does not work ?? Can you refer to a known, good, working iChat video-chat log going across a WAN/Internet (not a local LAN or Bonjour) that shows both the To: and From: IP addresses as 192.168.x.x ? The bottom line is if the actual transmitted SIP:invite packet (not some possibly inaccurate Log message) has a 192.168.1.x address as the destination IP, I do not think it will work. Some of the Logs that iChat provides do some processing or filtering such that I am not sure that it is an actual packet capture/decode.
Again, I am certainly open to learning something, but my understanding is if the packet put onto the wire is destined to be routed across the Internet to another user behind a NAT router, a destination IP (or a To: address) of 192.168.1.x will not work.
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- The SIP:invite message will have an SDP section that will indicate which port numbers to use for Audio, Video, Audio Contol, ad Video Control. Again, these should be the "publicly" visible (ie; Internet side of the NAT router) ports as learned via SNATMAP (or other methods such as UPnP..). The internal values for these ports are typically 16384,16385,16386,16387 for Tiger and 16402 for Leopard. The publicly visible values depend on the specific NAT router and how it translates internal address/port numbers.
- Once each end receives the SIP:invite and SIP:ok with the SDP session parameters, they will negotiate audio, video, etc..parameters..and if they agree, it should work.
The key n all of this is to get the correct SIP signaling port number, and then the correct SDP session attributes which include the A/V and A/V control (ie; RTP, RTCP) port numbers. And, finally these must be public, Internet routeable addresses in order to work across the Internet.

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I'm upset for two reasons: 1) the D-Link hub advertising isn't explicit about the need to have separate hub to host connections for each bus you want to use and 2) since my eMac only has USB 1.1 ports, the USB2 ports in the D-Link are 'stepped down' to USB 1.1 speeds (12 Mbps).
I'm also frustrated because I'd add a USB2 cardbus card to my eMac but it looks like the slot over the CD-ROM drive is only for Airport/Airport Extreme cards.
Does anyone have any info on that? Is the slot over the CD-ROM drive in a 1 GHz eMac a general purpose cardbus/PCMCIA type II slot or is it just for Airport cards?
Maybe I'll ask over on the discussions for the eMac.
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This article has the directions:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203
The important steps for you are these
+To listen to another account's music files+
+Open iTunes.+
+From the iTunes menu, choose Preferences.+
+Click Advanced.+
+Deselect the "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library file" option.+
+Click OK.+
+From the File menu, choose Add File to Library.+
+Note: Windows users can also choose Add Folder to Library to add a folder of songs.+
+Navigate in the Add File To Library window to the location where the other user's music is saved (the iTunes Music folder in the case above).+
+Click Open.+
+Repeat these steps for each account that is listening to shared music.+
+When another user of the computer has imported new music from CD, repeat steps 6 through 8 to add the music to your library.+

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