Posted on Aug 30, 2009

I can't receive skype video on my mac

I've been using skype on my mac notebook to talk to my girlfriend who is using a PC running Vista. She can always see me on video but I can't see her. When we first started I did see her on video on maybe a couple of occasions, but I can't get it to work at all now. The only way I get to see her is if she shares her screen with me, but this is very poor quality. The audio always works, although it can be very poor quality too sometimes. We both appear to have set up skype correctly in the skype settings to run video so why won't it work? Is it something to do with iChat maybe? My girlfriend has tried to video chat via her desktop and laptop, but neither work, so it must be a problem my end?

davedenty Sep 21, 2009

We've both got the latest version of skype (2.8.0.722 on mac and 4.1 on PC) and still cannot get video to work on my mac. Do we need to reinstall skype on either machine?

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