On Saturday 06 Dec 2014 17:00:00 Terry Coles wrote:
> So what I have is video from the Trust and audio from the Logitech and Skype
> seems to work fine. I've only tested it over our internal network so far,
> but there was zero packet loss and crystal clear video and sound.
Well the news is not brilliant. Calling my mother a few minutes ago, the
packet loss varied between 0% and 60%. Unlike with the high res Logitech
camera, the connection stayed up, but the latency was sufficient to cause
enough
stuttering to make the audio unintelligible to her, especially since the audio
was degraded too. As before, if I turn the video off the sound improves, but
then Mum can't lip-read.
So I have to hope that the Tox crew get their bug-fixes in, Skype gets updated
or wait until we get super-wide broadband here. Unfortunately we are likely
to be amongst the last in the country to get it (currently forecast for
mid-2016), so I'm not holding my breath for a solution in that department.
Also, I don't expect that Microsoft will provide a new version of Skype for
Linux for at least a year or two (based on past performance).
So I bought a new webcam for nothing really, although it did confirm my theory
as to why Skype was having problems. It would seem that whatever Skype is
doing with the video, it isn't performing any kind of compression on it,
whereas it certainly used to work well even with my high res camera.
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