Windows AIM gets videochat.

steve

http://www.aim.com/get_aim/win/win_beta.adp



So is this running on the same pseudo-standard that iChat uses?

stoo

Interesting. It'll probably officially work with USB webcams (unlike iChat AV \ ) and other Video For Windows devices: I wonder if you could broadcast TV over a chat using a TV tuner card ?

psgamer0921

I don't think you can. I'm pretty sure that is' only a webcam (Now, you COULD point the webcam at the TV )

torifile

The question is: will the iSight now work with Windows?

psgamer0921

Currently, Id say no, but apple may release drivers and what-not for windows, like the iPod and iTunes

dmband0026

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Originally posted by Stoo

Interesting. It'll probably officially work with USB webcams (unlike iChat AV \ ) and other Video For Windows devices: I wonder if you could broadcast TV over a chat using a TV tuner card ?

USB webcams suck majorly. Why you would want to use one of these is beyond me.

paul

that screen name linking feature looks good as well...

influenza

Some of my cow-orkers (moo!) have upgraded to the new AIM beta, and, though we have not yet had a chance to test it, iChat does now recognize them as being potentially capable of voice or video chat. This could become VERY handy for me, since I have relativly few friends who are Mac users but many who are AIM users.

thegelding

that would be sweet...have to check if my inlaws back east have firewire on their nasty pc...might have to get them a webcam for a late holiday present if they do...

of course i can see my kids going wild with this too...



i think i will leave the iSight on the computer room iMac and not put one on the computer in the kids room...don't want any "american pie" home videos going out from thegelding household....



i imagine some nasty shit going on with video iChat around the world...sure the commercials will show grandma talking to the grandkids, parents saying hi to the kid at college during finals week, loved ones talking to soldiers abroad at war...but the reality will likely be 95% teens talking to teens and freak sites with half naked people in hamster suits pleasuring themselves....



sigh



oh well, no moralizing from some old dude who calls himself thegelding...that would be almost as sad





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adpowers

There was a mention in my town's newpaper about someone being violated over webcam. Apparently the kid was talking to another kid in England or something and the kid on the other end flashed him.

applenut

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Originally posted by Stoo

Interesting. It'll probably officially work with USB webcams (unlike iChat AV \ ) and other Video For Windows devices: I wonder if you could broadcast TV over a chat using a TV tuner card ?

My brother streams me DirecTV via iChat when I'm at college.



He hooks up the Camcorder, connects the s-video and audio to the input on the camera, and it converts it, passes it through to the computer and streams it



works....REALLY well.

kenneth

good.

Let's say my Windows AIM friend with a webcam uses the latest version of AIM and I am using iChatAV with the iSight.



Will it finally working?

akumulator

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Originally posted by thegelding

freak sites with half naked people in hamster suits pleasuring themselves....

so what's the problem?



oh, and where can I get one of these hamster suits?

dmband0026

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Originally posted by adpowers

There was a mention in my town's newpaper about someone being violated over webcam. Apparently the kid was talking to another kid in England or something and the kid on the other end flashed him.

Was it a girl flashing a guy?



This is bound to happen. Why would you do a video chat with someone that you didn't know anyway? And it's just nudity, no big deal. The human body is beautiful, nothing to be ashamed of.

stoo

Quote:

USB webcams suck majorly. Why you would want to use one of these is beyond me.

It's not that bad, and it's much cheaper than £120. Oh, alright then, it sucks.

ludwigvan

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Originally posted by Kenneth

good.

Let's say my Windows AIM friend with a webcam uses the latest version of AIM and I am using iChatAV with the iSight.



Will it finally working?

That's the question. Are there any volunteers here to give this a try?

adpowers

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Originally posted by DMBand0026

Was it a girl flashing a guy?



This is bound to happen. Why would you do a video chat with someone that you didn't know anyway? And it's just nudity, no big deal. The human body is beautiful, nothing to be ashamed of.

Okay, I wanted to make sure I wasn't dreaming it, so I asked my friend about the story. Here is the link:



http://www.mi-reporter.com/sited/story/html/151090

"Suspicious circumstances

A boy and his parents told police Dec. 3 that a ``friend'' he met over the Internet and had been chatting with for several weeks began asking the victim obscene questions, flashed him via a Web cam and tried to get the victim to flash him in return. The victim then ended the conversation and told his parents; the suspect is described as a 16-year-old boy from Texas."



I video chatted for two hours with someone on AppleInsider right after iChat AV came out. I can't remember who, it might have been Filmmaker.



Personally, yeah, I have no problem with nudity. I would have taken screenshots and put them on Freenet (haha, kidding). That kid needs to grow some balls.



Andrew

malokata

I tried green-phoning an AIM beta user over iChat and it was no go. In fact, the phone was sort of faded, somewhat transparent...it was weird.

scott

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Originally posted by adpowers

There was a mention in my town's newpaper about someone being violated over webcam. Apparently the kid was talking to another kid in England or something and the kid on the other end flashed him.

Yea that never happens in person

ghost_user_name

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Originally posted by Malokata

I tried green-phoning an AIM beta user over iChat and it was no go. In fact, the phone was sort of faded, somewhat transparent...it was weird.

If the icon is faded, that means the person is already using that service (audio or video chat) with another person. You cannot open multiple audio/video connections; so, that's probably why it didn't work.

future-ex-pc-user

I've tried it on my LAN. No chance. If anybody knows how to set the settings I have a WinXP box right by my side. I'd love to be able to video-chat with PC-users (using iChatAV) because I'm the only mac user around :-)