iChat AV webcam access to Windows users

My dilemma follows:

My girlfriend is in Oregon for the rest of Summer. I am in Texas. I purchased an iSight in hopes of having realtime face to face communications. Downfall - She owns a windows machine and (being poor college students) we can't afford her a Mac, yet. :mac:

Is there a way, aside from Yahoo! Messenger's horrible 3.5 fps, we can utilize the wonderfulness of my new iSight. She has a webcam as well.

Please keep in mind our poverty as students (we can't afford monthly fees or expensive software). Too much to ask?


Thank you for all of your help.

Haven't you tried SkypeVideo® yet? Perhaps it is a good alternative.

You can video chat with AIM on windows

aMSN too.

I just tested Mercury Messenger, and it also works great with MSN Messenger on Windows machines.

novicew said:

Haven't you tried SkypeVideo® yet? Perhaps it is a good alternative.

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I downloaded Skype, but I was under the impression there was a fee attatched to either the software or the service.

neonlaundry said:

I downloaded Skype, but I was under the impression there was a fee attatched to either the software or the service.

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Everything Computer to Computer is free. There will be fees in 2007 again for Computer to Landline phone calls

trpnmonkey41 said:

You can video chat with AIM on windows

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I remember hearing many people having problems with the video chat between ichat and the new AIM triton on windows. I was never able to get it to work with my friends. But the older version is said to work fine and can still be found on AIM's website if you look around. I think it's version 5.8 or around there.