For Mac Users - Enquiry - Using videochat.tv
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 10:45 pm
Hello,
I am having a particular issue with video chat.tv for my MacBook Air (2015) and (2017) models created by iStreaming for AW.
It all begun with my MacBook Airs (2015) and started so suddenly too. It's very bizarre to explain but bare with me and I will try my best. When I log into video chat on chrome...it did not give my FT camera the option when selecting cams to use. So I contacted AW and they told me to try a different browser. Result! Safari worked for a little while. As at first all these issues were happening to my one MacBook Air. But I did have another one as a backup so I decided to try this one also. Meanwhile, I have been in touch with Apple Support which they advised me to update the iOS so I did. That problem still occurred on Chrome even with the new iOS and a complete NVRAM refresh, as they suspected it could be a flash player issue. But it wasn't.
The next problem that happened on Safari AND Chrome was my FT Camera would be very slow as that backlight came on, the closer to my screen I was. But if I went into the background a few inches away it would be completely fine. I'd like to add I wasn't logged in to the network. This was just happening whilst loading my cam and testing BEFORE I logged in to see FPS rates. So by this point I began suspecting hardware issues. However I did hardware test using restart and holding down D...no faults found on any of my Macs. ONLY on the videochat.tv lite as Skype and even such video chatrooms like ChatRoulette did not have this issue. ONLY video chat.tv Lite had this particular problem now.
So I sold my Macbook Airs (2015) due to they would be in working order for a non cam model using videochat.tv. I have now purchased a new MacBook Air (2017) model. I have now discovered, the same exact issues as before are still occurring. But get this, if I open Safari sign onto VC AND open my FaceTime App at the same time. The slow image I have been receiving instantly fixes itself. It is by far the most bizarre thing I have ever come across. And not even the Apple engineers I spoke to could figure out why it was reacting this way. But I am glad I have bought a completely new model now, and it is still happening to an extent because now I have the means to take it further with iStreaming and have all the evidence to prove it is their encoding or something along those lines which could very well be the problem.
I was just wondering if any other Mac users are having this problem. If so the temporary fix is to open your FT app with the browsers and cam open. But as far as a perm fix, I am completely baffled.
I am also writing this email to ask DP employees, if they could get Collin to get in touch with me. He's been so helpful in the past. I just wish to speak to him because if he could not help me then maybe he can steer me in the right direction of iStreaming admins I can contact further.
Thank you for reading,
Abbey
I am having a particular issue with video chat.tv for my MacBook Air (2015) and (2017) models created by iStreaming for AW.
It all begun with my MacBook Airs (2015) and started so suddenly too. It's very bizarre to explain but bare with me and I will try my best. When I log into video chat on chrome...it did not give my FT camera the option when selecting cams to use. So I contacted AW and they told me to try a different browser. Result! Safari worked for a little while. As at first all these issues were happening to my one MacBook Air. But I did have another one as a backup so I decided to try this one also. Meanwhile, I have been in touch with Apple Support which they advised me to update the iOS so I did. That problem still occurred on Chrome even with the new iOS and a complete NVRAM refresh, as they suspected it could be a flash player issue. But it wasn't.
The next problem that happened on Safari AND Chrome was my FT Camera would be very slow as that backlight came on, the closer to my screen I was. But if I went into the background a few inches away it would be completely fine. I'd like to add I wasn't logged in to the network. This was just happening whilst loading my cam and testing BEFORE I logged in to see FPS rates. So by this point I began suspecting hardware issues. However I did hardware test using restart and holding down D...no faults found on any of my Macs. ONLY on the videochat.tv lite as Skype and even such video chatrooms like ChatRoulette did not have this issue. ONLY video chat.tv Lite had this particular problem now.
So I sold my Macbook Airs (2015) due to they would be in working order for a non cam model using videochat.tv. I have now purchased a new MacBook Air (2017) model. I have now discovered, the same exact issues as before are still occurring. But get this, if I open Safari sign onto VC AND open my FaceTime App at the same time. The slow image I have been receiving instantly fixes itself. It is by far the most bizarre thing I have ever come across. And not even the Apple engineers I spoke to could figure out why it was reacting this way. But I am glad I have bought a completely new model now, and it is still happening to an extent because now I have the means to take it further with iStreaming and have all the evidence to prove it is their encoding or something along those lines which could very well be the problem.
I was just wondering if any other Mac users are having this problem. If so the temporary fix is to open your FT app with the browsers and cam open. But as far as a perm fix, I am completely baffled.
I am also writing this email to ask DP employees, if they could get Collin to get in touch with me. He's been so helpful in the past. I just wish to speak to him because if he could not help me then maybe he can steer me in the right direction of iStreaming admins I can contact further.
Thank you for reading,
Abbey