home videoconferencing with a Mac user

[gboyce at badbelly.com (gboyce)]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, John Abreau wrote:

> Seth Gordon wrote:
>> My mother (in Oakland, CA) uses iChat AV to have video conferences with my 
>> brother, sister-in-law, and nephew (in Chicago), and they want to do the 
>> same thing with me and my family.  Two problems:
>> 
>> (1) iChat AV seems to be a Mac-specific service.
>> 
>> (2) Neither of our laptops have FireWire ports.
>> 
>> Any ideas (preferably ones that don't involve spending a kilobuck or two on 
>> a PowerBook just for the sake of the video conferencing)?
>
> I recall reading a while back that there was a fork of Gaim that supported 
> video conferencing. I believe one of its primary goals was to work with iChat 
> AV.

I believe it was called gaim-vv.  It is actually being pulled back into 
the mainline though with the release of gaim 2.0.  I'm not sure when that 
release is planned though.

You could always try it out of CVS.

--
Greg