Tiger Bits: Tiger to Panther iChat Bug?

Kaan is right about Postgres - iChat is probably trying to use standard postgres port for streaming video and, naturally, fails. Unfortunately, the error message is cryptic

I can't audio tiger to panther on a couple of machines. However IM works for text messaging.

Tiger to Panther: I am never able to transfer images. Panther to Tiger: Image transfer usually works but sometimes doesn't. this is really frustrating. I hope there is a fix soon.

Since switching to Tiger, I can EITHER audio chat OR video chat, but when I connect, it WON'T do BOTH. So, if i vid-chat, i have to type, or i can aud-chat, but no image. Preferences show that everything it recognized, and it's getting the audio, but in the "Connection Doctor" the statistics show my "quality" at 0%. Any clues? Lolliffe@getty.edu

I have just found out that the reason this message appears is because - get this - Apple have dropped 'AppleTalk' protocol for Tiger so old systems that use this or software that may run using this protocol will no longer work or be recognised. Thanks Apple!

I have this message BUT the difference is I am trying to connect to a system 9 machine over ethernet. Also the system 9 machine will not see Tiger. it will connect happly to panther though.

Since upgrading to Tiger, iChat always tells me that my camera is in use by another application. I have not been able to find any help whatsoever regarding this issue. I guess I am the only one with this kind of bad luck.

For anybody who has seen the "Can't get video from the camera" error, if you are running postgres on your machine it is likely causing a conflict (if you are unsure whether you're running postgres, you almost certainly are not, as it isn't a default software app). I found a suggestion about this conflict, and once I brought down postgres and its related processes, iChat and my iSight camera function perfectly.

Since I upgraded to Tiger I've been unable to video or audio chat, and iChat frequently crashes when sitting quietly in the background. Apple Support just told me they're getting a number of these reports and I should await an update of some kind when they get it figured out.

I am having problems with both tiger-tiger and tiger-panther video chat. The error I get is "Can't get video from the camera". Audio works fine in both cases, and I've tried it on a Computer-to-Computer wireless connection, so the router isn't involved. The odd thing is that I can get a picture locally, it is only when connecting via the network. I also tried One-way video from each camera and get the same message, so it doesn't appear to be an iSight hardware issue.