I'm trying to set up a way to do video chat with my girlfriend, who lives far away. She has a macbook and I have a pc. I'm pretty tech savy with PCs, but don't know much about macs and I'm hoping someone might give me some insight into what is going on.
We both installed Yahoo Messenger to use for our webcams. She was able to view me without a problem. However, when she clicked on the webcam button in our chat window to launch her webcam, the computer said that no webcam was present. However, she insists that her macbook has a built in webcam.
I then suggested that she try logging onto ichat and me on AIM and we try to video talk that way, but ichat wasn't installed on her computer. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? My working theory is that she might have a version of MacOS/OSX/Tiger (forgive me. I don't know the general name for the OS on Apples) that predates ichat, which is why that wasn't on her computer. However, I don't know why that would cause yahoo messenger not to be able to see the webcam. If that is the case, can she simply download and install ichat to use the webcam? Does she have to install any drivers or change the hardware settings to enable the camera?
Can anyone help?? Please? I'm begging. How often do you get to see a PC user grovel at the feet of Mac experts? (To be honest, I almost bought a macbook pro for my last computer. They are really nice. However, in the end I found a really, really great price on a PC so I couldn't justify buying the apple. Maybe next time.)
We both installed Yahoo Messenger to use for our webcams. She was able to view me without a problem. However, when she clicked on the webcam button in our chat window to launch her webcam, the computer said that no webcam was present. However, she insists that her macbook has a built in webcam.
I then suggested that she try logging onto ichat and me on AIM and we try to video talk that way, but ichat wasn't installed on her computer. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? My working theory is that she might have a version of MacOS/OSX/Tiger (forgive me. I don't know the general name for the OS on Apples) that predates ichat, which is why that wasn't on her computer. However, I don't know why that would cause yahoo messenger not to be able to see the webcam. If that is the case, can she simply download and install ichat to use the webcam? Does she have to install any drivers or change the hardware settings to enable the camera?
Can anyone help?? Please? I'm begging. How often do you get to see a PC user grovel at the feet of Mac experts? (To be honest, I almost bought a macbook pro for my last computer. They are really nice. However, in the end I found a really, really great price on a PC so I couldn't justify buying the apple. Maybe next time.)
