This weekend, on top of all the other things, I tried to get a Video Chat system going with my brother in Calgary. I thought it would be neat to have him at the family party for the kids. Well. Let's just say we need to work on it.
There are multiple apps that do video chat, MSN, iChat, Skype to name a few. So here's the breakdown:
MSN: Video on Linux, no Video on Mac
iChat: Not on Linux, Video for Mac
Skype: No Video on Linux, Video on Mac
So there are some of the 'easy' solutions.
Then we started trying some of the SIP applications. Our best result was Ekiga(Linux) and xMeeting(Mac). We had video and voice working most of the time. But, we could only make a connection with H261, and the video quality really sucked. Big time.
We also had partial success with aMSN on both platforms. Unfortunately, the Mac software needed to be upgraded to work properly, and as soon as that occurred, aMSN refused to sign in to MSN. Hmmm, what's wrong with this picture?
The end result is… cross-platform video chat is still in the dark ages. A lot of work needs to be done to get it to work.
did you ever get this working? I have all 3 O/S’s in the fam and want to get webcams working for all. Suggestions? looks like this is a year old.
Skype turned out to be the solution that worked.