As posted earlier, I am up here at my new job during the week while my family is still back in California (temporary - we're all up here in early June).
I picked up an Apple iSight and set up my G4 at home with an iChat account. MSN Messenger for Mac doesn't support video conferenecing so I had to install AOL Instant Messneger on my PC here at the corp housing (good news - I found a local WiFi signal in the neighborhood!). I ran a few tests at home and everything seemed to work.
Well, it doesn't. I initiate the vid conf session on my end but it won't connect. It's hard to debug this since i am not there in front of the G4. I go home on the weekends and everything seems to be fine. Oy!
So now I am switching to SightSpeed, which seems to have a PC to Mac solution. I'll install the SightSpeed client this weekend and see if we can get this candle lit.
Your uncle Ed suggested I take a look at your blog and comment on your dilemma of trying to set up a videoconferece between a Mac and a PC.
My experience has been that Mac to Mac conferencing using iChat and 2 iSight cameras is just great --- I never have problems connecting and quality of transmission is usually pretty good (~15 fps going across the country) with the main problem being some intermittant loss of audio at times.
But Mac to PC is another story. The best I found when I was looking for a solution about a year ago was iVisit (www.ivisit.com) which has a free "lite" version --- the main restriction is that image size is restricted --- as well as a regular $ version. I've used the lite version with fairly good success, but it doesn't compare with iChat.
The main problem is trying to get these things configured correctly. I can only speak to the Mac side, but my biggest problem has been with the Sound Preference under System Preferences. Making changes in Input or Output seems to give me problems with the usual solution being to restart the application. All I can say is that it sure helps to have two fairly savvy people at both computers and a good phone connection!
Good luck.
Posted by: Charlie Corbato | April 21, 2005 at 06:09 AM
Sightspeed works great for pc to mac video calls and it also lets you send video mail which is pretty cool.
Posted by: David Sierra | May 04, 2005 at 01:20 PM
This video conferencing is made a webcame for can easly see the next person during the chatting in the internet.
Posted by: bobe_logan | June 01, 2007 at 04:32 AM
That's really a smart and quick sloution for video conferencing, without much efforts and time.
http://www.sony-conferencing.com/
Posted by: Steve M | August 26, 2007 at 10:31 PM
About six months I witness the wonder of videoconferencing when I was asked to deliver my lecture from my university to a high school via video conferencing. First I was thinking it was just a camera recording my lecture and will make the necessary editing to show the high school students but later I realized that I was interacting with the students live. Great technology
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