iChat MAC to PC Video Freeze after 6.5 min

I'm iChatting (Calif) with a PC (windows XP and AIM) user in Canada and his incoming video drops (actually freezes his frame) every chat session at 6.5 minutes into the Chat (per Connection Doctor window, video drops to 0%). Audio is still fine both ways and he can still receive my video. Both of us have cable modem hookups.
Any ideas??

Posted on Sep 17, 2004 2:07 AM

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Mar 23, 2006 1:58 PM in response to Stephonomon

Something to think about...

I just read every post about this freeze from posts dating back 2 yrs to the present, and there hasn't been much discussion about the PC user's webcam and it's drivers.

Get this, if us IChat users are getting a drop in video, it may be the PC user's video dirver that is dropping our incoming video. Our Macs are sending out consistent video packets, however the PC user's software is not. The issue of sound lends more support since most likely the video and sound drivers are seperate. So perhaps there are specific faults in drivers that specific companies or specific camera's are producing when interacting with AIM.

My girlfriend's PC is a logitech quickcam 4000, what is everyone else using?

Mar 23, 2006 3:27 PM in response to Stephonomon

HI Stephon,

Although this thread is 18 months old James Weston did post somewhere that his faster PC which he had connection problems to iChat was sortd by a new camrea and drivers.

Whether this is a related problem is difficult to tell.

Of the top of my head I can't remember what model it was although I know it was a Logitech.

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