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How does one do a video chat in Epiphany?
-- Jim Gribbin Linux user #179129 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Crowe" <crowe.robert@gmail.com> Cc: "Alaska Linux Users Group" <aklug@aklug.org> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 10:50:20 AM Subject: [aklug] Re: FriLinux Thanks for the report! I tried to do a video chat a couple months ago, usin= g 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 & vid= eo > recording. > > I had played around with this from time to time. Never had an appreciatio= n > 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 pas= t > 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 smoot= h > as it was on Damien's, but acceptable. Using my newer "Blue" camera w/ mi= ke, > 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 US= B > 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 > --------- > To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org> > with 'unsubscribe' in the message body. > > --=20 =CE=A8=CE=A6! =CE=BC~=CF=80=CE=B6=E2=89=88=E2=88=9E=CE=A9=D7=90 "Listen to me! When you die in Alaska you die in real life!" "Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet." African Proverb "When in charge, ponder. When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate." I make chaos Powered by AntiX 8.5 base w/ smxi (testing/liquorix) encrypted hda Ultra fast and lean-never phear the Penguin ;) --------- To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org> with 'unsubscribe' in the message body. --------- To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org> with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.Received on Tue Nov 23 00:52:53 2010
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