[aklug] Re: FriLinux

Thanks for the report! I tried to do a video chat a couple months ago, using
Epiphany in Ubuntu 10.04. I was chalking up the flakiness to a bad network
connection-I'm going to pick up that sword again and check this out tonight.
Currently using Antix 8.5 with smxi on my Itronix Gobook 3 (P4 M 1.8 ghz, 2
gb ram.) B
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:

> Damien and I spent most of our time playing around with USB web cam & video
> recording.
>
> I had played around with this from time to time. Never had an appreciation
> for just how much HorsePower it takes.
>
> I had always assumed I had something set wrong or flaky drivers because I
> couldn't get anything going in this department. I'd Googled it in the past
> for requirements and all I seemed to find was the software side of things.
> Never anything about minimum recommended hardware to accomplish the task.
>
> My 2.4 GHz P4-M (single core) is barely up to the task @ 320x240. I can
> also get audio if using my old Philips web cam. The video is not as smooth
> as it was on Damien's, but acceptable. Using my newer "Blue" camera w/ mike,
> I have to use the built in mic on the laptop. Even enabling the one from my
> Blue just freezes everything up. I think it's the combination of a higher
> rate video (than my Philips) plus audio simultaneously over the single USB
> port.
>
> Damien's 2.0 GHz dual core w/ builtin USB 2 does nice 640x480, until we
> threw the Blue's audio into the mix. It does nice 320x240 w/ audio. I
> suspect that with a little tweaking we might get audio @ 640x480 as well.
>
> Fielder was working on a HP office tower for the Mabel T Caverly Ctr. If
> anyone has a stick or 2 of DDR PC2100 @ 256MB or 512MB, it would probably
> help. Hard to get X working very well on 256MB.
>
> --
> Jim Gribbin
>
> Linux user #179129
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