When you search for someone to add to your directory, you then add them and a contact request is generated.

This contact request states "Please accept me as a contact so we can call and instant message each other.

Once they accept, the video becomes available. It is obviously a security feature and I am surprised that the techies at Skype have not been on here to explain the behaviour of their application.

I have this same problem, but it has nothing to do with accepting a contact. I can't video conference with my wife, and we are both using Macs.

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Online forums indicate that this is a problem with Skype 6. The problem seems to have started with the latest version of Skype.

There also may be an even bigger problem with the latest Mac OS. I run Leopard on an iMac, and my wife runs Snow Leopard on a MacBook.

They were working perfectly with video until my iMac auto-updated to 6. My wife refuses to update from 2.

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