Using the webcam with MSN

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Using the webcam with MSN

When I bought my Macbook I thought I would be able to use the built in webcam on MSN Messenger, but after three months I am still failing to find a way... Is it possible, or is the webcam only compatible with iChat?

Thanks for you help!

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Apr 18, 2008 1:02 PM

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rvaro

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Apr 18, 2008 1:04 PM in response to nonnie27

msn for mac does not have webcam functions.... ichat is the better bet... and i also read on some other post to use aMSN which will let you use the webcam functions...

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nonnie27 Author

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Apr 18, 2008 1:13 PM in response to rvaro

Thanks for getting back so quickly...

So, if I use iChat, do you know if the people I want to chat to must have iChat too? Is iChat in anyway compatible with MSN?

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suze54

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Apr 18, 2008 1:51 PM in response to nonnie27

Yes I find this a problem also. I have not been able to use the web cam for any other site then ichat. Is it not compatable on anything else?

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rvaro

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Apr 18, 2008 2:33 PM in response to nonnie27

there are a few ways for ichat... such as a .mac account (you have to pay as well as the other person needs a mac with .mac account too), you can use AIM on ichat.. and the other person (PC user) just needs an AIM account as well... there is a chat program called skype.. which you both would need.. and another one that i know is using jabber in ichat.. there are many steps to set up jabber to function as msn and you get to use the webcam function

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rvaro

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Apr 18, 2008 2:39 PM in response to nonnie27

i just found the link that i had saved to use jabber to function as msn.. this does take a little while but it does work

http://allforces.com/?p=17&akst_action=share-this

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