Has anyone succeeded in getting A/V Chat to work?
Has anyone succeeded in getting the A/V chat to work over the internet?
I've been attempting it with my brother to no avail. We've both opened up our firewalls, so it shouldn't be that.
I've also been trying to narrow down what traffic has to be allowed through. I see IP Multicast traffic to (if I remember correctly) 224.0.0.253, port 5353. How that is supposed to get routed over the internet I don't know. Anybody with more experience out there?
John
I've been attempting it with my brother to no avail. We've both opened up our firewalls, so it shouldn't be that.
I've also been trying to narrow down what traffic has to be allowed through. I see IP Multicast traffic to (if I remember correctly) 224.0.0.253, port 5353. How that is supposed to get routed over the internet I don't know. Anybody with more experience out there?
John
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Originally posted by John Whitney
Has anyone succeeded in getting the A/V chat to work over the internet?
I've been attempting it with my brother to no avail. We've both opened up our firewalls, so it shouldn't be that.
I've also been trying to narrow down what traffic has to be allowed through. I see IP Multicast traffic to (if I remember correctly) 224.0.0.253, port 5353. How that is supposed to get routed over the internet I don't know. Anybody with more experience out there?
John
Nevermind. One of us appears to have been doing something wrong. By the way, there is now an knowledge base entry about iChat AV port requirements:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article2....le.com%3a80%2f
Chas
Originally posted by Macmedia
I've gotten the Audio to work but am having trouble with the video. Does the person on the other end have to have Video in order to accept the stream?
Chas
Yep.
Originally posted by LoCash
Yep.
So what's the "One-way video chat" option for then?
I've had no problems with audio or video at all.
Originally posted by qazII
So what's the "One-way video chat" option for then?
This is what I ended up using with my brother (I have a camcorder, he doesn't). It ended up working well, although when he accepted the feed my side stopped updating the image (so I couldn't tell if I was in-frame or not). No picture-in-picture with this mode either.
We both have cable modem, and the picture was apparently great (I have to take his word on it). We were getting 26 frames per second (at any bandwidth range I selected, maxing out at about 200kbps). I'm guessing they degraded quality and not framerate with lower bandwidth.
For some reason, full-screen mode didn't work on my TiBook G4. The screen went half black, half white (left side was white). Not sure if it was just because I didn't have a video feed from him, or what.
(By the way, switching on the infrared feature of the camcorder was a riot ).
John
I can see that I'm going to have to pick up an iSight or 2. If I set the camcorder on top of my desktop machine, it picks up too much noise. Guess I'll have to get a quieter G5 now
Thanks for the help,
Chas
Originally posted by Macmedia
Noticed that it automatically shuts off after a few minutes of doing nothing. Does it do this because it doesn't detect any activity in the chat?
This is a battery saving function of the Canon. My Sony DV camera does it too (it shuts off after 5 minutes).
Originally posted by robster
posted a topic on this but I can't get any video to work on a G3 machine
Which G3 is it? It's gotta be at least a 600 MHz for the video to work. I can do it I just need a cam... My USB cam is too old and it seems that the USB bus is too slow....
Originally posted by Proud iBook Owner 2k2
Which G3 is it? It's gotta be at least a 600 MHz for the video to work. I can do it I just need a cam... My USB cam is too old and it seems that the USB bus is too slow....
tried it on a 500mhz Pismo PB, a 600mhz iBook and a 700mhz iBook.
No joy so far...
Originally posted by robster
tried it on a 500mhz Pismo PB, a 600mhz iBook and a 700mhz iBook.
No joy so far...
It should work on the two iBooks.... that Pismo is JUST too slow to handle it. What cam have you been using? Try this: Trash the iChat AV prefs, connect the cam and then reopen iChat AV so it establishes contact with the devices.
Anyone wanna video chat with me? Haha!?
BTW, I have a Cannon ZR-25.
Originally posted by Cake
This is a battery saving function of the Canon. My Sony DV camera does it too (it shuts off after 5 minutes).
Guys don't know if this will help you but it works for me. I also have a Sony DV and after five minutes the little bugger just turned itself off. I changed the camcorder power switch from Camera to MEMORY(the sucka-pixel digital camera mode) and it hasn't switched off one since.