On Sunday 14 Dec 2014 23:56:02 Chris Dennis wrote:
> I know I'm very late to this party, but has anyone tried this Skype
> alternative?
>
> https://appear.in/
>
> It uses WebRTC, and claims to be "secure".
It's good to know about all these different tools, although this one appears to
be v
Just tried it with a couple of collegues in the Netherlands, and it
worked a treat. No setup (in latest Chrome - Ubuntu and OSX)
Thanks!
On 14/12/2014 23:56, Chris Dennis wrote:
> I know I'm very late to this party, but has anyone tried this Skype
> alternative?
>
> https://appear.in/
>
> It
I know I'm very late to this party, but has anyone tried this Skype alternative?
https://appear.in/
It uses WebRTC, and claims to be "secure".
Cheers
Chris
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On Monday 08 Dec 2014 19:20:55 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > I've worked it out.
>
> Good.
>
> > The Mozilla crew didn't enable it by default for all users because
> > they didn't want everyone hammering their servers at once (Google for
> > 'How to enable Firefox Hello').
> >
> > You have to do a b
Hi Terry,
> > > I've found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8683830 which
> > > suggests you need to enable it in 34!
> >
> > I tried, but it isn't in the list of Add-ons. Maybe it is because
> > Kubuntu's V34.0 is different to the raw one?
>
> I've worked it out.
Good.
> The Mozilla crew
On Sunday 07 Dec 2014 16:58:13 Terry Coles wrote:
> On Sunday 07 Dec 2014 16:45:16 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > > I have Firefox 34.0 installed here and it doesn't have Hello.
> >
> > 35 improves on 34's Hello. So says
> > http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/12/04/firefox-35-beta-arrives-updated-hell
>
On Monday 08 Dec 2014 16:29:54 Terry Coles wrote:
> On Sunday 07 Dec 2014 21:42:54 Stephen Wolff wrote:
> > Have you tried Google Hangouts out of interest - had some better
> > experiences (video-wise) than with Skype for work calls fairly recently
> > - with multiple people (ie conference type) us
On Sunday 07 Dec 2014 21:42:54 Stephen Wolff wrote:
> Have you tried Google Hangouts out of interest - had some better
> experiences (video-wise) than with Skype for work calls fairly recently
> - with multiple people (ie conference type) using a mixed bag of OSs (ie
> Ubuntu, OSX, Win7). Might be
Have you tried Google Hangouts out of interest - had some better
experiences (video-wise) than with Skype for work calls fairly recently
- with multiple people (ie conference type) using a mixed bag of OSs (ie
Ubuntu, OSX, Win7). Might be worth a shot given Google are reasonably OS
agnostic?
On 07
On Sunday 07 Dec 2014 16:45:16 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > I have Firefox 34.0 installed here and it doesn't have Hello.
>
> 35 improves on 34's Hello. So says
> http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/12/04/firefox-35-beta-arrives-updated-hello->
> plugin-free-video-chat-functionality/ and
> http://www.g
Hi Terry,
> I assume that the extra 850 kbps is the resends.
I think
$ netstat -s | grep "segments retransmited"
27 segments retransmited
will show you those. You can keep an eye on it over time, untested.
l=
while :; do
sr=`netstat -s | sed -n 's/ segments retrans
Hi Terry,
> > > > http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/10/16/test-the-new-firefox-hello-webrtc-feature-in-firefox-beta/
> >
> > > In fact, it will be Firefox 35 that will support the 'Hello'
> > > feature with video conferencing. The link in the page that you
> > > cited is to the beta do
On Sunday 07 Dec 2014 16:13:50 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Terry,
>
> > Well it doesn't and I've now worked out that I probably need an uplink
> > speed of at least 1 Mbps to use Skype with the low-res camera and 4
> > Mbps to use it with the hi-res one. I have about 480 kbps.
>
> Is that based
On Sunday 07 Dec 2014 16:08:23 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Terry,
>
> > > Was Firefox 34 any use? Mentioned in an off-list email to you
> > > yesterday. It includes this feature from October:
> > > http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/10/16/test-the-new-firefox-h
> > > ello-webrtc-feature-
Hi Terry,
> Well it doesn't and I've now worked out that I probably need an uplink
> speed of at least 1 Mbps to use Skype with the low-res camera and 4
> Mbps to use it with the hi-res one. I have about 480 kbps.
Is that based on non-compression of the video stream?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
Hi Terry,
> > Was Firefox 34 any use? Mentioned in an off-list email to you
> > yesterday. It includes this feature from October:
> > http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/10/16/test-the-new-firefox-hello-webrtc-feature-in-firefox-beta/
...
> In fact, it will be Firefox 35 that will suppor
On Sunday 07 Dec 2014 14:04:32 Peter Merchant wrote:
> That webcam looks just like the one that I got from the market for 50
> pence a few weeks ago, that I opened up and it did not have a microphone
> in it. did you have to add the string env
> LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1com
On 06/12/14 17:00, Terry Coles wrote:
On Friday 05 Dec 2014 16:56:31 Terry Coles wrote:
After a bit of Googling, I managed to get the Creative CT6840 working with
Cheese, QTox and Venom, but not Skype ;-(
I'm seriously considering trying to get my hands on a low-res webcam from
Maplin or PC Wor
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 b
On Friday 05 Dec 2014 16:56:31 Terry Coles wrote:
> After a bit of Googling, I managed to get the Creative CT6840 working with
> Cheese, QTox and Venom, but not Skype ;-(
>
> I'm seriously considering trying to get my hands on a low-res webcam from
> Maplin or PC World. The trouble is, all the lo
On Friday 05 Dec 2014 21:22:02 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > After a bit of Googling, I managed to get the Creative CT6840 working
> > with Cheese, QTox and Venom, but not Skype ;-(
>
> Was Firefox 34 any use? Mentioned in an off-list email to you
> yesterday. It includes this feature from October:
Hi Terry,
> After a bit of Googling, I managed to get the Creative CT6840 working
> with Cheese, QTox and Venom, but not Skype ;-(
Was Firefox 34 any use? Mentioned in an off-list email to you
yesterday. It includes this feature from October:
http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/10/16/te
On Thursday 04 Dec 2014 19:33:53 Peter Merchant wrote:
> One of the webcams that I could not get working on Skype was identified
> as an ov_519.
After a bit of Googling, I managed to get the Creative CT6840 working with
Cheese, QTox and Venom, but not Skype ;-(
I'm seriously considering trying t
On Thursday 04 Dec 2014 19:33:53 Peter Merchant wrote:
> > A bit more info snipped from modprobe:
> > Module Size Used by
> > .
> > gspca_ov51948736 0
> > gspca_main 36735 1 gspca_ov519
> > uvcvideo 81065 0
> > videobuf2_vmalloc 13216
On 04/12/14 19:23, Terry Coles wrote:
On Thursday 04 Dec 2014 17:52:43 Terry Coles wrote:
When I plug it in the system doesn't seem to recognise it as a video camera
but I get this from dmesg:
[ 1510.740065] usb 5-2: new full-speed USB device number 5 using ohci-pci
[ 1510.901122] usb 5-2: New U
On Thursday 04 Dec 2014 17:52:43 Terry Coles wrote:
> When I plug it in the system doesn't seem to recognise it as a video camera
> but I get this from dmesg:
> [ 1510.740065] usb 5-2: new full-speed USB device number 5 using ohci-pci
> [ 1510.901122] usb 5-2: New USB device found, idVendor=05a9, i
On Sunday 10 Aug 2014 16:01:38 Terry Coles wrote:
> I just tried to use V 4.3.0 for the first time (Kubuntu 14.04; delivered by
> update) and it is just about unusable when the video is on. Here are the
> symptoms:
> 1. Remote user complains about video freezing and voice garbled.
> 2. Video an
On Sunday 10 Aug 2014 17:03:37 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-desktop-client/Skype-and-increased-ban
> dwidth-usage/td-p/3057790 suggests you can't limit the quality of the video
> used; the best the bandwidth can cope with is chosen.
>
> https://support.skype.com/e
Hi Terry,
> 4. Send network bandwidth approx 27 kBytes per second, which is about
> what the Internet bandwidth tools tell me I have available on this
> connection today.
>
> It seems to me that the new version takes every ounce of bandwidth it
> can get, with no cognizance taken of the bandwidt
On Friday 08 Aug 2014 13:57:16 Simon P Smith wrote:
> >> You need to download the 4.3 .deb from the skype web site. The 4.2
> >> version does not work with the authentication API anymore. It cut me
> >> off in the middle of a call!
>
> Glad it worked - it also seems to have fixed the pulse audio
On Friday 08 Aug 2014 13:28:32 Terry Coles wrote:
> Maybe they decided to withdraw that update.
Answering myself. I thought it odd that I hadn't seen any updates for nearly
a week so I launched the updater manually.
Sure enough, there were a whole raft of updates to be applied, including
*Skyp
On 07/08/14 20:55, Peter Merchant wrote:
> Peter,
>>
>> You need to download the 4.3 .deb from the skype web site. The 4.2
>> version does not work with the authentication API anymore. It cut me
>> off in the middle of a call!
>>
>> Simon
>>
> Thanks Simon, That got everything working again.
> Pe
On Thursday 07 Aug 2014 20:41:45 Peter Merchant wrote:
> On 07/08/14 17:22, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > /var/log/apt/history.log should say what packages have been upgraded
> > recently?
> OK, It's 14.04 that I am on. Here's the history log (Thanks Ralph), it
> looks like no newlines!
> start-Date:
On 07/08/14 17:42, Simon P Smith wrote:
On 06/08/14 17:23, PeterMerchant wrote:
Hi, Be careful of Skype. I have just done some updates on Kubuntu
14.10, which required a reboot, and now I cannot log into skype. It
won't recognize my password.
Peter,
You need to download the 4.3 .deb from the
On 07/08/14 17:22, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Terry,
Can you remember what the updates were? Skype's working here on
14.10, but I haven't seen any updates today (yet).
/var/log/apt/history.log should say what packages have been upgraded
recently?
Cheers, Ralph.
OK, It's 14.04 that I am on. He
On 06/08/14 17:23, PeterMerchant wrote:
> Hi, Be careful of Skype. I have just done some updates on Kubuntu
> 14.10, which required a reboot, and now I cannot log into skype. It
> won't recognize my password.
>
Peter,
You need to download the 4.3 .deb from the skype web site. The 4.2
version do
Hi Terry,
> > Can you remember what the updates were? Skype's working here on
> > 14.10, but I haven't seen any updates today (yet).
/var/log/apt/history.log should say what packages have been upgraded
recently?
Cheers, Ralph.
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On Thursday 07 Aug 2014 16:58:10 Terry Coles wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 Aug 2014 17:23:22 PeterMerchant wrote:
> > Hi, Be careful of Skype. I have just done some updates on Kubuntu 14.10,
> > which required a reboot, and now I cannot log into skype. It won't
> > recognize my password.
>
> Can you re
On Wednesday 06 Aug 2014 17:23:22 PeterMerchant wrote:
> Hi, Be careful of Skype. I have just done some updates on Kubuntu 14.10,
> which required a reboot, and now I cannot log into skype. It won't
> recognize my password.
Can you remember what the updates were? Skype's working here on 14.10, bu
Hi, Be careful of Skype. I have just done some updates on Kubuntu 14.10,
which required a reboot, and now I cannot log into skype. It won't
recognize my password.
Cheers,
Peter
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On Friday 26 Apr 2013 19:08:29 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > It seems to be telling me that the only version available is the one
> > installed.
>
> Yes, it would, I forgot you'd moved up to the latest 13.04 release of
> Ubuntu, sorry.
>
> You're probably getting the package from
> http://archive.can
Hi Terry,
> terry@BEIGE:~$ sudo apt-show-versions -a -R -p ^skype
> skype 4.1.0.20.0-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 install ok installed
> skype 4.1.0.20.0-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 raring archive.canonical.com
> skype/raring uptodate 4.1.0.20.0-0ubuntu0.12.04.2
> skype-bin 4.1.0.20.0-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 install ok install
On Friday 26 Apr 2013 16:52:46 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > > sudo apt-show-versions -a -R -p ^skype
> >
> > Hmm. that command is returned not found.
>
> It's from package `apt-show-versions'. I thought Ubuntu had a `command
> not found' handler set up in bash that would tell you the command wasn'
Hi Terry,
> > sudo apt-show-versions -a -R -p ^skype
>
> Hmm. that command is returned not found.
It's from package `apt-show-versions'. I thought Ubuntu had a `command
not found' handler set up in bash that would tell you the command wasn't
found, what you may have intended, and in what packa
On Friday 26 Apr 2013 15:04:44 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> sudo apt-show-versions -a -R -p ^skype
Hmm. that command is returned not found. I've tried apropos as many
combinations of apt / show / version as I can think of and no-show.
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Hi Terry,
> I'd like to try rolling Skype back to an earlier version, which is
> alleged to work. The trouble is that the various pages I've found
> just say to do just that without any guidance on what to do.
Is Skype currently from a package from a repository, e.g. the Canonical
`partner' one,
On Saturday 13 Apr 2013 18:31:56 Natalie Hooper wrote:
> My guess would be nvidia, as it's a video driver so it could impact on
> whether a camera is found or not (if driver doesn't recognise your
> camera anymore for example or if driver sends to Skype some
> incompatibility signals).
Well after
On Tuesday 16 Apr 2013 00:36:41 CPK Smithies wrote:
> If it would help, I have at home two working 64-bit Ubuntu installations
> of Skype. (I was hoping that I had the installation package but alas
> no.) I could e-mail the binary off list. I would also be glad to help
> any LUG member who wishes t
If it would help, I have at home two working 64-bit Ubuntu installations
of Skype. (I was hoping that I had the installation package but alas
no.) I could e-mail the binary off list. I would also be glad to help
any LUG member who wishes to test Skype. My ID is CPKS00.
Kindest regards to all,
Chr
On Sunday 14 Apr 2013 16:25:13 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> http://community.skype.com/t5/Video-on-Windows/New-Skype-version-6-3-video-d
> oes-not-work-anymore-again-with/td-p/1503746 and
> http://community.skype.com/t5/Video-on-Windows/My-webcam-stop-working-after-
> the-latest-update-to-skype/m-p/1508
Hi Terry,
> An interesting development. My mother called this morning and it
> turns out that video has stopped working for her too! Although she
> used to run Linux on her Asus netbook, she now runs W7 on her HP
> laptop.
http://community.skype.com/t5/Video-on-Windows/New-Skype-version-6-3-vid
On Sunday 14 Apr 2013 12:26:37 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Does the camera have an activity LED? Does that light at all for Skype?
> What about the `test webcam' bit of Skype I see mentioned?
Yes, no and no it doesn't work in the Skype setup.
An interesting development. My mother called this mornin
Hi Terry,
> Just to be on the safe side, I installed qv4l2 and ran it. I was able
> to activate the webcam inside that, but still not inside skype.
Does the camera have an activity LED? Does that light at all for Skype?
What about the `test webcam' bit of Skype I see mentioned?
> All video cap
On Saturday 13 Apr 2013 21:11:45 Peter Merchant wrote:
> And with our friend google, discovered a forum entry that suggested I
> try the following string. I had to stop skype first, and dig out the
> password.
>
> sh -c 'LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
> /usr/bin/skype "$@"
On Saturday 13 Apr 2013 18:31:56 Natalie Hooper wrote:
> My guess would be nvidia, as it's a video driver so it could impact on
> whether a camera is found or not (if driver doesn't recognise your
> camera anymore for example or if driver sends to Skype some
> incompatibility signals).
I though nv
On 13/04/13 19:13, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Terry,
Natalie wrote:
Start-Date: 2013-04-10 17:30:53
Upgrade: libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 (9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1, 9.0.3-0ubuntu0.1),
My guess would be nvidia
It does stick out as a common culprit of all ills, doesn't it. :-)
Do you have Cheese installed?
Hi Terry,
Natalie wrote:
> > Start-Date: 2013-04-10 17:30:53
> > Upgrade: libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 (9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1, 9.0.3-0ubuntu0.1),
>
> My guess would be nvidia
It does stick out as a common culprit of all ills, doesn't it. :-)
> Do you have Cheese installed? Does your video camera work in
On 13 April 2013 13:26, Terry Coles wrote:
> On Saturday 13 Apr 2013 12:01:28 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>> Well, it may be that the fix wasn't for your combination of hardware or
>> doesn't cover all the breakage in some other way. Could still be worth
>> trying an old kernel that you still have from
On Saturday 13 Apr 2013 12:01:28 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Well, it may be that the fix wasn't for your combination of hardware or
> doesn't cover all the breakage in some other way. Could still be worth
> trying an old kernel that you still have from when Skype did work.
It doesn't look like it's
Hi Terry,
> You obviously have a degree in Googling :-) I searched for a similar
> problem and didn't find anything ;-(
Perhaps it's just learnt the kind of things I "like" searching for. :-)
> Just in case; how do I roll back to 3.5.0-23, which apparently works?
> My /boot directory includes:
On Saturday 13 Apr 2013 08:32:03 Terry Coles wrote:
> That is almost certainly the problem; the kernel was updated to V 3.5.0-27
> two days ago and this is the first time I'd used it since then. It looks
> like the previous update, to V 3.5.0-25, took place on the 9th. Apparently
> V 3.5.0-26 fix
On Saturday 13 Apr 2013 00:36:00 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> What has changed to stop it working? :-) Perhaps /var/log/apt might
> give a clue as to what packages have been upgraded since then, e.g.
> kernel. I found
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1147729 which might
> be rel
Hi Terry,
> Is anyone using Skype? On Kubuntu 12.10, video has suddenly stopped
> working, although the webcam kernel module has been loaded and works
> in other applications.
>
> When I try to enable video in Skype the list box says 'No device
> found'.
What has changed to stop it working? :-
Hi,
Is anyone using Skype? On Kubuntu 12.10, video has suddenly stopped working,
although the webcam kernel module has been loaded and works in other
applications.
When I try to enable video in Skype the list box says 'No device found'.
Any thoughts?
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