From: "Gary Britt" 

Is it faster and less buggy than doing video chat than MSN Messenger and the others?

Thanks,

Gary

P.S.  What's MP3 Pro and how is it better than MP3 and worse than MP4 in
terms of quality for sound??


"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> Trillian has ZERO ads that flash at you, and if you have contacts on
> multiple lists, it consolidates them all into one.
>
> --
>
> Glenn M.
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:42bc4869{at}w3.nls.net...
> >I checked and Trillian Pro does do video chat.
> >
> > My wife and I only video chat with each other.  We tried using
Netmeeting
> > for this purpose, but even with routers at both ends set to DMZ, I
> > couldn't
> > get it to work both ways.  I could only get it to work one way only.  So
> > we
> > were forced to do one of the instant messengers.  We tried Yahoo but its
> > software seemed a bit bloated and possibly buggy.  We both needed to
> > reinstall it more than once and the Yahoo servers were often busy and
hard
> > to connect through.  So now we've tried MSN Messenger.  It seems a bit
> > less
> > bloated not as buggy and haven't had as many problems with their servers
> > than we did with Yahoo.  However, its still plenty bloated and loaded
with
> > a
> > bunch of cutsie kid stuff.
> >
> > MSN Messenger is free, so before I pop for Trillian tell me, if you
would,
> > why I should.
> >
> > I know its operable with lots of messenger clients, but that feature
isn't
> > important to my situation.  Is Trillian less bloated, faster, and better
> > able to handle some older hardware than MSN 7.0???  Does Trillian do a
> > better job of synching up video and audio, etc. during a video chat
> > session??
> >
> > How is Trillian able to get its client to work with everyone else's
> > client,
> > but MSN, AIM, et al can't figure out how to do this?  Or are the instant
> > messenger wars been long over and I just missed it?
> >
> > Thoughts anyone?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > "Chris"  wrote in message
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> >> I know it will do audio, but not tried video.  If you do, you *may*
need
> >> to upgrade to the "pro" version.  Please check
their website for
details
> >> and factual information as I have never tried it.
> >>
> >> http://www.trillian.cc/
> >>
> >> /Chris
> >>
> >>
> >> Gary Britt wrote:
> >> > Does Trillian do video and voice conversations over the internet
> >> > between
> > two
> >> > computers?
> >> >
> >> > Gary
> >> >
> >> > "Chris"  wrote in message
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> >> >
> >> >>That's why I use Thunderbird.  It has all the functionality I
need/want
> >> >>and none of the MS side-effects, such as msn messenger.  I like
> >> >>trillian
> >> >>MUCH better.
> >> >>
> >> >>/Chris
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>Glenn Meadows wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>>OK, thanks.  What's odd, is that it never started
till after
> >> >>>yesterday,
> >> >
> >> > when
> >> >
> >> >>>I manually started it to do some testing with a
video conference
> >> >
> >> > thingie.
> >> >
> >> >>>Now, the bloody things starts everytime I start
OE, even though I've
> >> >
> >> > turned
> >> >
> >> >>>off the Start Windows Messenger when Windows starts...
> >> >>>
> >> >>>Why do they make it so hard.....>GRRR<
> >> >>>
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> >
>
>

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