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    Mac OSX and iSight with Windows Live Messenger?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by RamGuy, Apr 23, 2010.

  1. RamGuy

    RamGuy Notebook Geek

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    So I've just started dealing with Mac OSX for the very first time, and I have some great problems getting the integrated iSight camera on my MacBook Pro 17" to work with the Microsoft Live Messenger protocol.


    All I know uses Live Messenger 9.0, and I want to be able to chat AND having webcam sessions within Mac OSX.

    Is this even possible? I've tried the new Microsoft Live Messenger 8.0 BETA for Mac OSX, which was supposed to be the very first official Microsoft client for OSX supporting webcam? But for me it doesn't work at all, no webcam..

    My contacts doesn't even seem to get all my messages either, so it's obviously something very fishy going on with this client.


    I also tried mercury, but couldn't get the cam-thing to work, not with the stable 1.9 or RC6 og 2.0, no matter what protocol I tried to use.



    So any other solutions?
     
    RamGuy, Apr 23, 2010
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  2. Khris

    Khris Yes I am better than you!

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    The Messenter Beta for Mac is a mess unfortunately.

    aMSN can share video, but not audio and I'm not sure of any Live Messenger equivalent for Mac that can do both.

    Your best bet for video chat is Skype, hands down.
     
    Khris, Apr 23, 2010
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  3. Luke1708

    Luke1708 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Try Amsn. Also you could virtualise an os if you really want to use video chat in msn. Windows xp boots the fastest
     
    Luke1708, Apr 23, 2010
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