ISight and Windows Messenger

I beg your pardon for my question. I have a friend of mine who owns an Intel iMac and would like to use the integrated iSight to video chat with a friend on the opposite side of the world.
His friend has a Windows box and uses Windows Live Messenger.
Is there an app for Mac OS X that can speak the Messenger language and use the iSight camera?
Best regards.
Alessandro

Hi
Have a look at Mercury http://www.mercury.to/ and aMSN http://amsn.sourceforge.net/ Video but no audio on both.
If your trying to video with PC then you will be better off using Skype to do video between Mac and PC.
Mac version http://www.skype.com/download/skype/macosx/index.html
PC version http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/helloagain.html
Tony

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