Need Best Program for Video Chat

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Hey Everyone..I have a problem...

I just got a macbook which I am super excited about and i love it but i have one problem. I have a girlfriend who lives quite a ways away and we talk to each other via webcam on msn. She has a pc and it worked fine when I had a pc but I realized that msn does not support video chat on the mac. What is the best program for me to use that will have the best video chat? I downloaded skype for mac..and it's ok. I've had some problems with it cutting off calls every ten minutes but I'm dealing with it. I tried Ichat and she signed up for AIM but we couldn't get the video to work. And I don't think AIM has good video anyway. Does yahoo work on macs? I dunno...i'm lost. I'm hoping I can get something that works because I got the mac so that I would be able to move around the house and I was sick of pcs. Can you help me? Thanks
 

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Have you tried aMSN?
 
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What is it? I have the window's messenger that comes with Microsoft office for mac but i'm pretty sure it doesn't support the video feature.
 

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What is it? I have the window's messenger that comes with Microsoft office for mac but i'm pretty sure it doesn't support the video feature.

Click the link ;)

It's an open source variant on MSN Messenger, has full video support on the Mac.
 
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I just use iChat but I see it dosent work which is odd. A lot of my friends have it and it works but Yahoo is great for video chatting I hear.
 
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skype is the best cross-platform one I've used.
 
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Have you fully updated your mac to the latest version of ichat?
 
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Skype isn't working well. Picture is horrible and it keeps shutting off so we quit that. I think i have the most recent iChat.. We are using amsn and it's working out great so far! Thanks a bunch for the recommendations. Only bummer is amsn doesn't seem to have voice besides the sending the voice clip. But we'll deal with it. Thanks :)
 

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