iChat MAC to PC Video Freeze after 6.5 min

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?

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.



11:27 PM Thursday; March 23, 2006

PLEASE send feedback to Apple for our issue. The more of us that do it, the more likely the developers will respond.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ichat.html

still nothing. i did send my feedback to apple. Hopefully they are looking into it, though after 2 years that seems doubtful.

Yeah, I gave up and have had success with Sightspeed.