[Mac] MSN + WebCam?


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We all know that the official MSN Messenger client for OSX is out-right nasty, but for me it does it's job and I'm not really fussed about finding an alternative. But something that I've noticed is that it doesn't support WebCam conversations, I can use iChat AV, but most people I know still use Windows and therefore MSNm, does anyone know of an alternate client that supports WebCam conversations?

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I'm in just the opposite boat. Most of the people I like to chat with are on Yahoo, and I like using the chat rooms on there. Unfortunately, there are only two programs that can currently connect to Yahoo's chat rooms, Charla and ChitChatX, neither of which works very well. Don't get me started on how lousy the experience is if you try to use the Yahoo Chat web page (chat.yahoo.com). Why is it that messenger clients can't keep the features at least ROUGHLY the same between platforms? I think the only one that is virtually the same between platforms is AIM, but I almost never use that.

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i'm like wise, everyone i know uses msn messenger and tries to chat me up and asks for vid all the time. What i've done is hook up webcam xp on the peecee and instead of sending vid to one user i can send to all. to receive vid, i use a second account on the pc...

nuts :huh:

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Argh. :crazy:

But thanks for testing.

No problem... Yeah, I HAD to test it about 5 minutes after I found out that AOL had released video support.

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Is there a piece of software out there that can use a webcam via the MSN servers..?

So, Yahoo! (which no1 uses in my area) can support webcams...so how can that help us MSN users..?

I've never used iChat AV because I don't know anyone who uses it, everyone I know all use MSN Messenger.

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Well that's (sort of) good to know. Hopefully we'll see something remotely like MSNM 6, and hopefully it wont be a bloated resource hog like 6 is on windows and 3 is on mac :\

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MSN Messenger 3.5 is a resource hog? To be honest I haven't noticed thus far! I did use Fire for MSN, but found it lacking and hence switched to MSN Messenger 3.5, which seems to do a good enough job for myself. I haven't any need of all the extra stuff that's been included since version 6 on the windows side.

Other than make some minor GUI modifications, I can't see what else I want extra in it....

ss1.

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I've found MSN for Mac to be about the same "bloat" as iChat. It chugs on multi-user chats, but besides that it's about the same resource usage (at least that's what ps -auxww | grep MSN shows).

I'm hoping GAIM somehow figures out webcam stuff for the various protocols (trillian did it, which is a good sign), which makes it's way into libgaim, and that makes it's way into various cross-platform apps ;)

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i agree probally just as much as any other mac user, msn messenger needs to be updated for the mac to support voice, video, etc.

I guess signing the petition [http://www.petitiononline.com/msn64mac/] as speedy_b mentioned above may help, microsoft has taken recognition into these petitions in the past .

btw when is this 'MWSF' taking place so we can be on the lookout for new versions? Anyone know?

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http://www.macworldexpo.com/macworldexposf/V40/index.cvn

MWSF = Macworld San Fancisco. Macworlds are sort of like Christmas for the Macintosh, a lot of major hardware and software announcements are made at these expositions. Whenever you here people talk about "Stevenotes" (steve jobs' keynote address) they're probably talking about something going on a macworld.

That's not to say that macworld is the only time apple announces new things (it's not: last year we had the iTunes music even for iTMS/new iPods and WWDC for the G5/10.3) but it is a time when you can expect almost every major mac software person to demo the upcoming products.

Macworld is the 5-9 (the exposition starts on the 6th) of january.

Hope you've saved a few pennies.

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why yo guys not try iVisit, though yo have to download alternative app, but it cross platforms, ran smooth video and audio, all yo need to do is register a user name, and for my part, it does support up to 8 people AV chat!!!

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Hello admin, 

Thank you for writing to MSN Messenger.

There are no definite plans yet on what features will be incorporated with the next version of MSN Messenger for Mac. I have forwarded your inquiry to our product team that carefully reviews suggestions and requests, and considers them for future releases.

Should you have other questions on MSN Messenger, please feel free to write us back. 

For additional online help, please go to: http://messenger.msn.com/Mac/FAQ.aspx?client=2

Sincerely, 

Antonio 

MSN Messenger Support

Bah! :D
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