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Video Chat Software Reviewed

Posted by michael on from the cu-see-me dept.

Ryan writes "The PowerPage by way of The New York Times has a comparison of Apple's new iChatAV and Microsoft's MSN Messenger 6. My favorite quote, 'Microsoft, true to tradition, has focused on expanding its list of features, while Apple has worked toward elegance and simplicity.'"

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  1. Re:Right... by jtdubs · · Score: 5, Informative

    A friend and I have iChat AV. We are in separate states, each behind our own OpenBSD based firewalls. Only a few specific ports like 22 (ssh) and 80 (web) are tunneled through.

    I fired up iChat AV, and so did he. I saw the little phone button next to his name, so I pressed it. It connected and we started talking. Working great. No port forwarding.

    IIRC, the audio stream is sent right inside the instant messager packets so as long as you can instant message, you can use voice.

    I'll break out tcpdump and check it out sometime. No hurry though, cause it works great...

    Justin Dubs