Newb- Video conferencing with Windows possible and with what Win app?

Giving video conferencing a shot for the first time. Is it possible to video conference with my (mostly) Windows using friends? If so, what program do they need?

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I want to do a video conference with up to 4 people at a time. I have a mac - MBA Rev C (OS is 10.56). I just started up iChat today for the first time and am using my AIM ID on it as I don't have a .mac account.
The problem is I want to chat with other people in a group conference but I think the other people all have PCs and are using Windows XP. Getting AIM is not a problem for these people and they all have webcams.
I just don't know whether it's possible for us to have a video conference with the four of us all viewing the three videos simultaneously on the one screen.
Will I be able to see and hear the three other people? Will they be able to see the three others?
Will I be able to see the three others at the same time but they won't be able to see anyone, or only one person, me?
How does this work? I've read a lot of sites about this but none mention whether this is possible or not. I know it's possible to have a video conference between 2 people using a mac and a PC but I want to know about a mac and 3 pc situation.

Have a look at Tokbox http://www.tokbox.com/

Video conferencing with Windows users with the new iMac.

This may be a worn out topic, but I am trying to talk to family in Canada via my new Intel iMac. My family has MSN Messenger and after attempting to use that I quickly found that it isn't compatible.
Please tell me there is some way to utilize my video conferencing capabilities to stay in contact with all my unfortunate Windows using relatives.
Please take into consideration that I am new to the Mac world. I've had this computer now for 2 weeks, though I'm learning quick.
Thanks in advance,
M

Please tell me there is some way to utilize my video
conferencing capabilities to stay in contact with all
my unfortunate Windows using relatives.
You could wait for Microsoft to update the Mac version of Messenger (haha!) but you should probably try using a third party client.
aMSN has support for video and voice using any camera that is supported by QuickTime, http://amsn.sourceforge.net/
Adium is a good general chat client. It doesn't support video or voice but it probably will one day (and it almost certainly will before the official MSN client), http://adiumx.com/

Firefox freezes when i visit websites with videos on the background or i watch videos.I have windows 7 and the laatest version of mozilla.

I have windows 7 and the latest version of firefox.When i watch videos on youtube or visit websites with videos on the background mozilla freezes. I tried to disable all the extensions and plugins but it had no result.I didn't had this problem with versions of mozilla previous to 4.

I have had a similar problem with my system. I just recently (within a week of this post) built a brand new desktop. I installed Windows 7 64-bit Home and had a clean install, no problems. Using IE downloaded an anti-virus program, and then, because it was the latest version, downloaded and installed Firefox 4.0. As I began to search the internet for other programs to install after about maybe 10-15 minutes my computer crashes. Blank screen (yet monitor was still receiving a signal from computer) and completely frozen (couldn't even change the caps and num lock on keyboard). I thought I perhaps forgot to reboot after an update so I did a manual reboot and it started up fine.
When ever I got on the internet (still using firefox) it would crash after anywhere between 5-15 minutes. Since I've had good experience with FF in the past I thought it must be either the drivers or a hardware problem. So in-between crashes I updated all the drivers. Still had the same problem. Took the computer to a friend who knows more about computers than I do, made sure all the drivers were updated, same problem. We thought that it might be a hardware problem (bad video card, chipset, overheating issues, etc.), but after my friend played around with my computer for a day he found that when he didn't start FF at all it worked fine, even after watching a movie, or going through a playlist on Youtube.
At the time of this posting I'm going to try to uninstall FF 4.0 and download and install FF 3.6.16 which is currently on my laptop and works like a dream. Hopefully that will do the trick, because I love using FF and would hate to have to switch to another browser. Hopefully Mozilla will work out the kinks with FF 4 so I can continue to use it.
I apologize for the lengthy post. Any feedback would be appreciated, but is not necessary. I will try and post back after I try FF 3.16.6.

Finally: Large window Mac-PC video conferencing with Yak

This isn't an iChat AV post, but since I've scoured this forum in the past for information on Mac-PC videoconferencing, I thought I would make a posting for other interested iChatters. My iChat AV works beautifully to my Mac-using in-laws but I have had much more trouble finding a workable videoconferencing app for my PC-using parents.
I downloaded Yak this morning (http://www.yakforfree.com/). Within about two minutes, I had signed up for a free account and installed the software on my end. It probably took 5 minutes to talk my mom through the download and setup. We connected immediately.
Although the initial window is postage-stamp size, if you click on detach window, you can resize it. I made my window half as large as my screen; my mom made hers as large as her second monitor. I was using an iSight camera and she was using a cheap USB camera. Voice quality is as good as Skype and video is pretty darn good (my expectations weren't high).
After my first experience, I would highly recommend this software to Mac users seeking to video conference with PC users.
Bill

Hi,
Welcome to the Apple Discussion Pages
Sounds useful.
Have Bookmarked it for my Other Apps folder.
Looks like the other Skype-like features are US based.
Ralph

Video Conferencing with iSight and PCs (logitech)

I'm new to all this VC stuff and just bought an iSight and wish to vid conf with my dad and brother. They are both at different locations and I need a tudoring or manual of some type. Any help? For starters, so I need a .mac account to conference with PCs?
Thanks,
Steven

I need a tudoring or manual of some type.If you need more help that you can get from your Mac's
iChat > Help > iChat Help menu choice or from
Apple's on-line iChat Tutorial,
see Using iSight with iChat AV.
... so I need a .mac account to conference with PCs?So no. Either dot Mac or a free AIM Name will work.
See Mac Video Chat with PCs for "how-to" info.

Using the iChat video conferencing with a PC user

I have been trying to use the iChat AV with a PC user who is on AIM. Is this not possible? Even a one-way chat?

Unfortunately this is the only way I use iChat... I can't convince my relatives to make the apple jump. It will not work one-way, only if both sides have video. When it does work it works ok, but the windows side generally has all kinds of configuration issues (like personal firewall problems). It also isn't that great of an experience on the windows side, but that is just my opinion after using hte mac side.
There are some really good folks in the ichat forum with a LOT of great information on how to get this working correctly. But for the most part the problem is going to be on the other (pc) end. The one other person I do video chat with is a mac user in New Zealand and I am in the US - when we connect I never have a problem...
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Hi
"i guess that the aim with pc wont work out..."
It's been some time since I was last on here so not sure whether advice will work, Ralph Johns has a good website on getting a Mac to video talk to a PC using AIM/iChat. Whether it can do a 3-way is another matter, person with PC could have a look at http://www.ralphjohns.co.uk/page12.html & see if it helps. I have Skype but haven't tried any video calls with it yet so don't know if it can 3-way.
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Hi,
I am looking for a flash based secure video conferencing app which has the ability to record conferences.
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Well and If you look at any thing by blackberry you can see that it does not match up on its features versus the iPhone. iPhone users and those of us who use it for it's amazing abilities aren't caught up on the fact that it lacks video, or picture messaging. There are other things that are more important to worry about with this phone. Play around with it and you can see that this is a very powerful tool. I switched to AT&T just to get the iPhone. Blackberry's phones have nothing on the iPhone, the way i look at it is the iPhone can only blow your mind away in the next model and until then get used to it's functions. I'd rather know how to use it at it's "simple" state as opposed to it high tech overly advanced possibilities.

Video Conferencing with IOS Homogeneous Video Conference Bridge

Dears,
I have CUCM 8.6 and 3945 Cisco router with 2 x PVDM-256
I configured the IOS Homogeneous Video Conference Bridge. and I did the required configurations in the router. and I can see the conferencing bridge is registered.
I put the conference bridge in the existing MRG and MRGL. But I am not able to do video conferencing. I can get only the audio.
is there any thing missing ? any reolad should I do ?

Sure.
So on the gateway that you have the video conference configured, in which we have guranteed voice as the configuration, you will also add in an MTP profile. The MTP profile will be configured as software and have the appropriate codec configured that you may be using because of your regions. We have g722-64 and passthrough on one because we saw the E20's requesting MTP resources from the logs.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I begin to see!
Don't have an Instant Messaging application on my box! Last one I ever used was ICQ over fi've years ago.
So that's the requirement, Jason? An "Instant Messenger?"

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Hi there,
can anybody tell me how I can video conference with my MAC with someone using MSN account?
On my side I have a google account and an MSN account
Thanks in advance

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If a PC user has an AIM account, does this mean that I can video chat with them?

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How to do Video Conferencing with PC users

Does anyone know how to video conference with for example MSN messenger users? I want to video conference with my sister who only has a PC she is trying to do this via MSN messenger can it be done and how?
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Try aMSN and Mercury Messenger, both of which are MSN clients that support webcam/video chat. Yahoo Messenger (the official client) also has webcam support, but of course your sister would have to download Yahoo Messenger. Finally, I've heard reports that iChat on the Mac and AIM 5.9 on the PC will allow video chats.

Upgrading video card - Is it possible, and what would work best?

Hi there!
So, I play a lot of video games on my iMac, and lately I've been noticing major issues with my video card that just keep getting worse as games get better. For instance, in World of Warcraft I maintain about 6 frames per second in places with a lot of particle effects, and maybe 15-20 frames per second in most other places. I tried minimizing the window to about a tenth of the screen to see if it was just more than my card could handle at that resolution, and lo and behold my fps went up to over 30 in a place with lots of particle effects. On the downside, I have no desire to play at anything but fullscreen mode in games, and I'd really like to have decent framerates at high resolutions. This is the Graphics/Displays section copy pasted from my system profiler application:
ATI Radeon 9600:
Chipset Model: ATY,RV351
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
Slot: AGP
VRAM (Total): 128 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x4150
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-xxxxx-117
Displays:
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Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 1440 x 900
Depth: 32-bit Color
Built-In: Yes
Core Image: Supported
Main Display: Yes
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Hello,
You can't upgrade the graphics card in your iMac.
Make sure that you have plenty of RAM in your system, that all non-essential applications are closed down during your gameplay (including not having too many widgets in Dashboard) and at least 15% of your hard disk is free. This should allow your machine to work at it's maximum.
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