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Nov 17, 08 - 05:04 pm Comment from: Scott

Please please please let this be the fix for the video freezing while video chatting with someone else. *crosses fingers*

Nov 17, 08 - 05:04 pm Comment from: Chip

Wow, is that ever snappy!

Oh wait - that was just my gum.

what were those candies that were like pebbles but snapped and crackled in your mouth???

poprocks

Update is crackly and poppy.

Nov 17, 08 - 05:42 pm Comment from: Jubei

It's all crackalakin good!

Nov 17, 08 - 05:46 pm Comment from: Sir Real B. Czar

They should rename it "SnappyTime".

Nov 17, 08 - 06:38 pm Comment from: MrScrith

Between this and the upgrade to my internet connection I'm hoping the issues I have with video chat will go away... we shall see...

Nov 17, 08 - 07:01 pm Comment from: Predrag

Is it only me or has Skype pretty much caught up with audio and video quality and robustness? Until not long ago, iChat AV was far superior to Skype for AV conferencing. Skype has always had a slide-show video (3 - 5 fps on sub- 100kbps line), while iChat consistently pushed 15 fps through the same pipe. Also, while iChat had analog phone-like audio, Skype hopelesly tried to push FM-quality audio through the narrow 100 kbps pipe, resulting in frequent drop-outs (in addition to that slide-show video quality). I could never do Skype on slower pipes; iChat AV was consistently able to push both audio, as well as 15fps video through 64kbps (!!!).

Recently, though, Skype's audio robustness has improved, as has the frame rate. While the frame rate still isn't 15fps (on the same pipe), it's better than before.

Let's hope this fix improves iChat's video quality.

Several interview-style Podcasts I listen to have said that they use Skype for their interview recording because of an echo problem on iChat. Does anyone know about that, or if it might be fixed?

Does this mean I can use H.264 with my computer running System 7.5.5! Out-standing!

Nov 18, 08 - 04:58 pm Comment from: derekcurrie

Leopard Only!

That should have been stated in this article.

Many of us, despite the remaining bugs, still use Tiger because we find it to be remarkably less buggy than Leopard 10.5.5 (especially the Server version!). I'm getting the idea that the major bug fix for 10.5 Leopard is called 10.6 Snow Leopard.