Video Conference with a Windows PC

I have an iMac G5 with a separate iSight camera and my daughter has an iBook G4 with separate iSight camera. My son has a Windows PC with the following: Intel Extreme edition qx6700 quad core processor, 2 GB of ram and a BFG 8800 GTX video card. He is running a dual boot system with XP SP2/Vista. His camera is a MS Lifecam VX-3000. All of his drivers are up to date and he is using AIM with Trillian to communicate with his sister and me.
Our problem is that I can video conference with my daughter and a third person and my daughter can video conference with me and a third person, but my daughter and I can not video conference with my son. We can each individually iChat with my son, but video conferencing is not possible with him. Both my daughter and I have multiple iChat camera icons for each other when we launch iChat, but my son shows up with one iChat camera icon when he is online.
Is there something that can be done on his PC hardware or software wise where we can video conference with him? Or is this a problem with all PCs? Any help in figuring this out would be much appreciated! Thanks for your help.
Rod
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

rodswic
Your son has a single camera icon because he is unable to participate in multi-way chats (macs only).
Get your son to check his windowa firewall and other settings:
http://www.mvldesign.com/videoconferencetutorial.html
If that doesn't solve your problem, consider Skype instead. In my experience, Skype is a better bet for Mac-PC videochats.
Both sides will need to download the appropriate version of Skype:
http://www.skype.com/download/skype/macosx/
http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/
Dave

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