iChat 4.07 Video support

Openfire Openfire Support
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Does anyone know if I should be able to do video with iChat 4.07 and Openfire 3.63?

If I click on another user, video/screen sharing/voice is initially available, then when we try to accept the session invite it errors and sends a notification to Apple.

TIA

Ze Stuart

2

Absolutely. Video works great. The video sessions happen independently of the OpenFire server. OpenFire just makes it so that each client can reach the other.

3

Interesting, are you running on the default OpenFire config? Any extra plugins to make this work?

Also, what version of OS X do you have? 10.5.6 here…

4

No plug-ins needed. Using OpenFire as the server is no differerent than using AIM on iChat.

5

Thanks Ryan.

If anyone else reads this and is interested, my connection log is below:

2009-02-24 13:35:45 +0000: AVChat started with ID 2565198087.
2009-02-24 13:35:45 +0000: 0x29e53f80: State change from AVChatNoState to AVChatStateWaiting.
2009-02-24 13:35:45 +0000: user@domain.local2: State change from AVChatNoState to AVChatStateInvited.
2009-02-24 13:35:50 +0000: 0x29e53f80: State change from AVChatStateWaiting to AVChatStateConnecting.
2009-02-24 13:35:50 +0000: user@domain.local2: State change from AVChatStateInvited to AVChatStateConnecting.
2009-02-24 13:36:01 +0000: 0x29e53f80: State change from AVChatStateConnecting to AVChatStateEnded.
2009-02-24 13:36:01 +0000: 0x29e53f80: Error -8 (Did not receive a response from 0x29e53f80.)
2009-02-24 13:36:01 +0000: user@domain.local2: State change from AVChatStateConnecting to AVChatStateEnded.
2009-02-24 13:36:01 +0000: user@domain.local2: Error -8 (Did not receive a response from 0x29e53f80.)

(This is for initiating a video chat.)

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Video doesn’t necessarily work great. If both parties are connected via Jabber account to the same Openfire server, then yeah, video should indeed work—if it doesn’t, you’re probably looking at a NAT router issue, UPnP, something like that. If their buddy icon has the video button next to it, then this is probably the case.

But if you’re trying to initiate a video chat with someone who’s on another service, via the gateway plugin, video probably won’t work. The video icon won’t even appear next to their buddy icon.