home videoconferencing with a Mac user
John Abreau
jabr at blu.org
Mon Dec 5 11:55:22 EST 2005
Seth Gordon wrote:
> My mother (in Oakland, CA) uses iChat AV to have video conferences with
> my brother, sister-in-law, and nephew (in Chicago), and they want to do
> the same thing with me and my family. Two problems:
>
> (1) iChat AV seems to be a Mac-specific service.
>
> (2) Neither of our laptops have FireWire ports.
>
> Any ideas (preferably ones that don't involve spending a kilobuck or two
> on a PowerBook just for the sake of the video conferencing)?
I recall reading a while back that there was a fork of Gaim that
supported video conferencing. I believe one of its primary goals was to
work with iChat AV.
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