Mac OS X forum: iSight with Yahoo Messenger

Hello,

I have had the same problem and I have found that the Mac version of the messenger is nowhere near as well developed as the PC version. Yahoo also doesn't seem to care.
I don't know if this will work for you but I went to the messenger preferences and adusted the speed/quality to more quality and and made the video size smaller. Mine hasn't crashed lately. The main problem seems that the program is just not the same quality as the PC version. Good luck.

these are my comments on the apple isight it apparntly only works with aol accounts and .mac accounts ridiculous if you ask me!
ciao mick

if the isight is so great why cant a person use it with msn messenger and yahoo messenger.
i bought one a few months back and you could only use it if you were an aol client and on .mac sites.
and all the peolpe i know use msn messenger and yahoo mesenger
so wahts so great about it?
i brought mine back to the store where i had bought it for a refund.
i am still looking for a cam that works with the messengers and is totally compatible with other users cams otherwise who needs it!
and waht warrants the cost of $130-$150 if it isnt totally compatible?

iSight does work with AOL. My finding is anyone who is anyone has AIM (AOL Instant Messenger). AIM actually isn't an AOL product. Most people who use MSN Messenger also have AIM. You don't have to have AOL as your provider. AIM is a free Instant Messenger. It's my understnading that PC users need just to have XP and the latest version of AIM to video conference with a Mac user using iChat. I've used my iSight with iVisit, which is a crappy little instant messaging application, but both audio and video work.. just not as good as with Yahoo or iChat.

As for your friends not having either Yahoo or AIM,, it's simple.. they are free and very easy downloads. The can get them, and so can you.

I'm at work, but anxious to try that fix for using iSight with Yahoo on my Mac.

Try Logitec webcams.. they're cheap and make one for Mac.

yes..I used to use it all the time..(it was not best quality in yahoo due to thhe drivers I guess) but since the last few updates in Windows and yahoo...it is not responding and sometimes crashes... also,I uninstalled Virex 7.5 virus for my apple and my computer is probably about 50% faster.... and the came came with no crashes... but could not connect still...

I was using these two together for a while, and though there were crashes, the frequency was low enough to not bother me too much.

Recently I installed MS Office - I have no clue why that could or would affect these two, but since then whenever I start the webcam feature in YMessenger, it crashes immediately.

I have sent multiple reports to Apple about it, and searched Yahoo!'s website too. Looks like neither of them care.

iChat does work with AOL/AIM and mac.com names, it is not yet compatible with yahoo or msn.

I too use iSight and have had relatively few problems with using it in Yahoo. I have found that it works the best when I plug the iSight in before I launch yahoo, I don't have to turn it on, just plug it in. Then at anytime turn it on and the only main problem I have is HOW I turn it off or disconnect. If you have people watching your cam, you have to first disconnect all users, then turn the cam off, then unplug it in order to stay logged into yahoo without it crashing. Occasionally it will crash if I have too many programs running or too many people accessing, but that's rare. The main problem is just unplugging the cam without disconnecting users and turning it off first. Hope this helps!!!

Well thank you, I certainly hope it helped you out. There are of course fluke chances that it will crash even when you do things the way I explained, but I have found the least amount of crashes happen this way. Also, it seems that the less you use other cpu draining programs at the same time, the less crashes happen. I do hope that they start fixing these bugs soon! Happy chatting...

Works nicely for me both on my old 400MHz G3 iMac and on my new Powerbook G4. I've been using it for quite some time.

Good luck.

Oh, and btw, I very, very seldom bother with iChatAV, far inferior to YMsgr -- something I hate to admit being the avid MACer that I am. But in this case it's Yahoo all the way. NOW, if they'd just get the Mac version caught up with PC one (chats, music, advanced contact options, etc)

For VOIP chat use Skype..
Works great with mac
Free

I have used my iSight with fairly smooth sailing on Yahoo. G5, 10.3.x [currently 10.3.9, where it seems more stable than it ever has], dp, 4gb ram. Have you checked the video settings in Yahoo? Have you shut down iChat before turning on your iSight in Yahoo?

Just got my iSight camera yesterday and have had no problems w/ Yahoo chat. In fact many people use yahoo for caming as opposed to other chat programs. If you do not have a fast DSL or no DSL then you should try to 1) make your picture smaller and 2) set your bandwidth for the best picture but this may or may not make a difference. I can only imagine that your problem would be speed related, i.e. dial up connection, RAM lower than 512 or a processor smaller than G4.

My problem w/ yahoo v. Mac comes in the form of trying to access chat rooms. For some reason NO browsing app can enable the Java script completely. Only the extremeley inferior version of IE that is available to Mac users comes close to opening a chat window.

Any help there?

quick question: any of you who successfully use iSight with Yahoo Messenger would be doing all of us wondering whether to plunk down the cash a great service by telling us:

When using iSight with Y! Messenger, does the VOICE feature work when chatting with Windoze users on Messeger? Yes or no?

thanks.