Video conferencing has been practically nil on the Mac for a long time. With a firewire camera and 30fps at 640x480 talking to my Mac friends in Montreal or Halifax will be great!
I'm so glad they allowed ANY firewire camera to be used as a web cam. I called that one in a thread yesterday. looks fairly interesting. I havent seen the iSight yet. And the G5 is ugly as sin, but it'll grow on me.
three different stands, one firewire cable that does video, audio and power...sweet little camera...wish it was 20 bucks cheaper, but what is 20 bucks...
Video conferencing has been practically nil on the Mac for a long time. With a firewire camera and 30fps at 640x480 talking to my Mac friends in Montreal or Halifax will be great!
What do you guys think?
A FW WITH A BUILT IN MIC!!!!!! At least when i got my iBot there were now FW cams with mics. That may have changed but my iBot can't mount to my 23" display.
Apparently, the new iChat beta has a few bugs. Frex, it does not handle line-initial non-alphanumerics (e.g., a question mark, exclamation point, etc.) properly. (Yes, a bug report's already been submitted to Apple).
I'd expect some problems with the new features, but how did they manage to break the parser so egregiously by adding videoconferencing?
Is it going to come with an app for recording? Seems like that might be useful to me for some of the more in-depth classes. If it's only for iChat, it seems fairly useless from my point of view.
Is it going to come with an app for recording? Seems like that might be useful to me for some of the more in-depth classes. If it's only for iChat, it seems fairly useless from my point of view.
You can use an free app from Apple called Quicktime Broadcaster to record from a firwire camera/camcorder. I've used broadcaster a few times to video conference and always assumed (hoped) that it would have a lovely easy face stuck on it and turned into a webchat app. don't know wether thats what ichat AV is based on but suspect it is.
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That thing's so *TINY*!
will pick one up soon
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Originally posted by Kickaha
I think there are going to be a lot of arrests for illegal voyeur webcams.
That thing's so *TINY*!
ha...never thought of that....
at thegelding household....
"honey, why are you moving the iMac from the computer room to the bedroom??"
"oh, just thought it would look nice in here...honey, more wine??"
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Originally posted by the dead parot
This is great.
Video conferencing has been practically nil on the Mac for a long time. With a firewire camera and 30fps at 640x480 talking to my Mac friends in Montreal or Halifax will be great!
What do you guys think?
A FW WITH A BUILT IN MIC!!!!!! At least when i got my iBot there were now FW cams with mics. That may have changed but my iBot can't mount to my 23" display.
I'd expect some problems with the new features, but how did they manage to break the parser so egregiously by adding videoconferencing?
that thing does look tiny. It also looks very cool. In fact probably looks better than the tower design (though I admit being a fan).
Originally posted by Kickaha
I think there are going to be a lot of arrests for illegal voyeur webcams.
That thing's so *TINY*!
Wonder if you can use it with your iPod?
Panther Porn
the only way to P2P!
That is just awesome. I'm buying one.
Originally posted by Gakusei
Is it going to come with an app for recording? Seems like that might be useful to me for some of the more in-depth classes. If it's only for iChat, it seems fairly useless from my point of view.
You can use an free app from Apple called Quicktime Broadcaster to record from a firwire camera/camcorder. I've used broadcaster a few times to video conference and always assumed (hoped) that it would have a lovely easy face stuck on it and turned into a webchat app. don't know wether thats what ichat AV is based on but suspect it is.
why the hell do I need at least 600MHz G3 ? ? ? ?
I use a 450MHz crt iMac for my internet purposes.
It's a sweet machine and works grand with iSpQ and such.
too bad, it just says my puter doesn't support video chat
G5 kick ass though ! ! !
however, I still think the Quicksilver (of which I own two) is the prettiest cpu ever to have come from Apple !
this new case is already growing on me though, too bad it's more rectangular than el capitain, bit of a turn off to me.
otherwise, apple is back on top!
2. there BETTER be a way to use it outside of iChat. video/voice recording lil videos/sound clips would be killer.
3. connecting it to the ipod would be just pure genius. instant spy kit.
4. i'm hoping it's this expensive because it's better than the rest (just like the iPod did with mp3 players)
Originally posted by ~ufo~
dagnabbit iChat AV doesn't suport my cpu
why the hell do I need at least 600MHz G3 ? ? ? ?
I use a 450MHz crt iMac for my internet purposes.
It's a sweet machine and works grand with iSpQ and such.
too bad, it just says my puter doesn't support video chat
because your computer cant do the real time encoding required for the video feed