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yeah-- but is it snappy ?

Very cool. I will recommend it to friends and family.

Oh my God, no way!

May 07, 08 - 09:11 pm Comment from: Ampar

Ooh hoo, not Hulu, but ooVoo?

May 07, 08 - 09:48 pm Comment from: iDon't

Can it be used for porn?

May 07, 08 - 09:57 pm Comment from: lee

Audio was of marginal quality when I tried it several days ago. Video was average to good. Attractive user interface. Desirable multi-user AV conferencing features.

Yeah but who is using this oohoo?
Nobody? Exactly.

What's with the name?

It doesn't seem to work on my Intel Mac with Leopard as stated. Sucks.

May 07, 08 - 11:00 pm Comment from: ElderNorm

Hmmm, I am thinking of trying it. Not for Macs but for connecting to some PC friends. I think that there is another way but I have not found it yet.

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Apparently after having installed the package it creates a program in the Program folder that has no size and an incompatible format for Mac. My MBP meets all requirements, but I can't open anything. Is this program supposed to be run under iPhone OS maybe?

SightSpeed is great for making a Mac to PC video chat connection.
THIRTY frames/sec. FREE.

http://www.sightspeed.com

My wife chats with her family in the Philippines all the time using SightSpeed on our Macs (iMac G5 and MacBook both running Leopard).

May 08, 08 - 01:52 am Comment from: blucaso

Yeah, it looked interesting until I read on the download page that the Mac version does NOT include: Free phone calls, recording, or video effects. I'll stick with Skype, thanks. At least they're close to feature parity with Mac and Windows.

More wasted humanity.

Trash this crap.

May 08, 08 - 07:23 am Comment from: Predrag

Anybody here forgetting iChat ( = AIM on Windows)? Up to four people (not six, I admit), but extremely resilient and frugal with bandwidth (try one to one audio/video chat on DIAL-UP!!!), I have yet to see Skype, SightSpeed, MSN (sorry, Windows only), and now this ooVoo to match the robustness of connection and quality of video that iChat/AIM has.

Yet another product that does not provide feature parity with the Windows version. I informed ooVoo I won't accept second class citizen status and will not use their software until it has feature parity.

May 08, 08 - 08:25 am Comment from: Ampar

"I won't accept second class citizen status and will not use their software until it has feature parity."


Ditto. Well said.

Forget this.

In my experience it's iChat using Gmail login as a Jabber account. And Skype for chatting to the dark, very dark, Windows side.

Isn't Windows a misnomer? Light what light?

@Predrag

What?!? I haven't been able to audio chat using dial-up in years. I've tried connecting iChat AV with friends in the same room and get nothing but the "User not responding" message. And, with Leopard's version of iChat, the program is even more bloated than ever.

As far as Windows users connecting with iChat users, I've heard all sorts of problems with that too. The idea that there are alternative AV IM programs being developed tells me that the existing ones aren't really all that desirable.

I welcome the competition, alternatives, and further development for the Macintosh. Anyone who can come up with a better iChat is good in my opinion.

@Predrag,
You assume you can actually GET connected using iChat. My dad and I have problems CONSTANTLY getting iChat to work. One machine on his network will work, another won't. Connection errors galore. Same problems at a completely different house with a different computer. We never used to have problems, so it's something in the last few updates - maybe even Leopard. I'm running 10.5 and he's not. We'd use Skype, but audio quality SUCKS on the MacBooks, because unlike iChat, it doesn't mute the speaker that's right next to the mic and you get feedback, ringing, echos... it's terrible. We've almost quit using. Google "ichat connection error".

May 08, 08 - 10:17 am Comment from: Cubert

"G5 with 1Ghz"

That's bizarre. The first G5's were 1.6 GHz if I remember right.

May 25, 08 - 01:24 pm Comment from: ditsterz

Predrag: ichat is great mac to mac but i have not been able to use it to video chat w/ pc user. tried skype and did get it to work a little. video quality was not good and audio was horrific to nonexistent.