Alternative to MSN with WebCam Support

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pse.no.spam@gmail.com - 25 Aug 2005 14:17 GMT

What are the alterntaives to MSN Messenger for the Mac that will
support a webcam?

What do people think about Mercury? (see http://www.mercury.to/ )

It looks like Mercury now suppors a webcam! (see
http://www.mercury.to/index.php?sub=Webcam )

Any other options?

Rob

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Peter Graves - 25 Aug 2005 20:21 GMT

> What are the alterntaives to MSN Messenger for the Mac that will
> support a webcam?
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> Rob

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tma - 31 Aug 2005 00:34 GMT

Mercury is quite nice since it supports most of the Windows messenger
features.
I tested the webcam support (receiving only) and it works well...I didn't
try audio support!

The interface is kind of ugly compared with the Microsoft versions (my
humble opinion) and sometimes it crash (known bug solved in the new beta
versions), also I could not figure out how to use pictures that are not in
png format, but it is easy to convert them if you have ImageMagick. The
auto-update works well... what more can I say?

Well... since Microsoft does not bet in the Macintosh version as they do
with the Windows version (which I believe it is a shame), I think that
Mercury is the best alternative around.

> What are the alterntaives to MSN Messenger for the Mac that will
> support a webcam?
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> Rob

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Alternative to MSN with WebCam Support