Re: Future of Risc OS

In message <slrn.2007-03-30.16-32-26@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Ben Shimmin <bas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jess Hampshire <phantasm_39@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
In message <slrn.2007-03-26.14-35-32@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Ben Shimmin <bas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There are actually two open-source MSN clients for the Mac which support
webcams for audio and video -- aMSN and Mercury Messenger. Predictably,
since they are multi-platform affairs, they are fairly horrible. Better
than nothing, but fairly horrible. I generally try and encourage people
to use AIM, so I can just use iChat. Skype is also surprisingly pleasant
to use on a Mac.

I tried skype on my mac as a result of this comment.

It doesn't work very well. It crashed several times. Wouldn't seem to
do video, and the speech sounded like a cyberman. All this on a slow
mac, but one that is normally stable and runs iChat videoconference
quite well.

I'm surprised! What spec Mac do you have? It runs fine on my Power Mac,
but also on my 1.2GHz G4 iBook (hardly cutting edge technology these days
in Mac terms).

Only 350 MHz, but iChat can do videoconf quite happily, not quite as
good as a modern machine (and doing much else at the same time isn't
too good). The sound with iChat or X-Lite is far better than skype.
(on this system)

--
Jess
http://jess.itworkshop-nexus.net
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