WHY CANT I INVITE TO VIDEO CHAT?

I have an Imac with Isight, and with MAC OSX 10.4.2 , and my friend has an Ibook G4 with the same operating system, no camara.
i have a aim account and he has an .mac account. We can chat with audio over ichat, however when I want to invite to a one sided video chat i dont even have the option of inviting to a video chat, its not highlighted..we can only do audio, why cant we do a one sided video chat???
Thanks alot for any help!!

Hi Mariaxoxo,
Welcome to the Apple Discussion Pages.
IS the Camera Enabled in the Video Menu ?
Does the option Appear in the Buddies menu or when you Control/Right Click on your Buddy ?
Does you Buddy have a carea as well ?
Ralph

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