[aklug] Re: FriLinux

I was doing a video chat in "Empathy" which has nothing to do with
Epiphany...whoops. An update on this thread-while using Antix this go around
I was able to hold a video chat successfully, however with conky installed
by default my cpu was hovering in the 60% range (P4m 1.8 ghz) and for the
first time I'm seeing some swap activity. Crazy.
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:

> You lost me...
>
> How does one do a video chat in Epiphany?
>
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> 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,
> 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.
> >
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> > Jim Gribbin
> >
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"Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet."
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"When in charge, ponder. When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate."
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