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.

These pages have sat here since 2008 with no update. In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

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08 iChat 2 Video Chat

Oct 2008

8 Video Chat with Pic-in-Pic Picture

This is the iChat 2 Video Chat 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).

A successful connection will open out to this view - although this one is somewhat confusing as it is with myself on two computers at the same desk.

Your Preview will shrink to become the Picture-in-Picture and you will see your Buddy.

The Pic-in-Pic can be placed in any corner. It can be resized from about a 1/16th of the Chat window size (as in this pic to the left), to as big as the main picture shows it , at 1/4 of the window.

The Controls to Go Full Screen are in the Bar at the bottom of the main chat. They move to the Picture-in-Picture when you are in Full Screen Mode.

The last picture in this Sequence is End of Video Chat Window.

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Information Block

This site is about iChat from Version 1 through to iChat 5.x.x
Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document. Some small tense changes have been made but the content is by and large untouched.

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

The sections below will change for Specifics about info on the page on view

About This Page

What the Successfull chat window looks like.

It also talks about resizing the Pic in Pic and moving it around the Chat window and the control for going Full Screen.

Compatibility

As mentioned above this has had a major Edit/Update in September 2024 meaning that the Browsers listed below are likely to no longer work.

I have tested in Safari 18.1, Firefox 130.x and 131.0, Vivaldi 6.9.3447.48 and iCab 6.2.3 (All Mac Browsers) I don't have access to a PC let alone multiple browsers to test on.

The original pages worked 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) would only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.