Ralph Johns

iChat Information Pages

Version 2

 


iChat Icon

These iChatAV (Version 2) pages are coloured Green and have the iChat 2 icon on them that was in use at the time, so you know where you are. The icon differs from Version 1 by having the camera logo added.

iChatAV (Version 2) Pictures

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7[9] 07 iChat 2 Video Invites Oct 2008

This is the iChat 2 Video Invite window. (well actually it is an iChat 4 pic which has the Effects Button but otherwise it looks the same. The fourth icon, to the right, is because I run a Add-On and this button controls it's pop out drawer).

In a Video Chat this is the next phase. The Video chat window shows your Preview and is labelled as such whether it is Outgoing from you or Incoming from a Buddy. It also has the "Waiting for..." Message.

As the Buddy hits the Accept button it should change to Starting. This will mean iChat has moved from doing the Visible part of the Invite to the SIP part of the Invite which is behind the scenes.

Connection Doctor Window

If the Chat fails there will be a summary message and more Details in the Connection Doctor.

The Connection Doctor is in the Video Menu. It can be opened during a Chat and will display the Frame Rates of you and your Buddy with a graphical representation of their feed.

If the chat fails that the bottom part of this picture to the left appears with more details on why it failed. If you make more attempts that fail then the area become scrollable with new messages being at the bottom and the view adjusted to the last Error Message (you have to Scroll Up for old ones).

The actual message in this error means the Buddy did not use the red Button to end the Chat (did not "bye" properly) so iChat reports the call was cut short by some other factor.


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Information Block

This site is about iChat from Version 1 through to iChat 4.x.x

It has a mixture of basic info and problem solving help.

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Whilst you see your Preview several Messages appear across the window to inform you how things are going

Compatibility

Confirmed to work with Win/IE 5.5 and later (should work in 5.0, but not confirmed), Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, iCab 3.02 and later, Mac/IE 5, Netscape 6 and later

Old browsers (IE version 4 or earlier, Netscape 4 or earlier) should only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.