Re: Help with Skype

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 21:51 -0400, Rick Kunath wrote:
>> On Thursday, May 05, 2011 09:49:14 pm Chris wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 21:30 -0400, Rick Kunath wrote:
>> > > On Thursday, May 05, 2011 09:11:40 pm Chris wrote:
>> > > > I'm looking for some help with Skype, can someone point me to somewhere
>> > > > other than their site or possibly give me some help here. I haven't
>> > > > been able to get any help there with my problem(s). FWIW I'm running
>> > > > Skype beta 2.1.0.81 and the rpm is 2.1.0.81-69.1mib2010.1
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks
>> > > > Chris
>> > >
>> > > What's your problem with it?
>> >
>> > Receiving video is intermittent. I have three contacts, my mom, my
>> > sister and brother. Using the newest beta I could see video from my
>> > brother and sister but not my mom. I could also see my video in the
>> > bottom right corner. Thinking it may be the software I removed it and
>> > installed the previous beta. I now could see everyone however the small
>> > video in the corner is just a white square. When I do manage to get it
>> > turned on somehow, their video goes away though they can still see me.
>> > It's really kind of irritating me
>> >
>> > Chris
>>
>> What camera? is it UVC compliant?
>
> I have just now gone back to the newest beta which is 2.2.0.25,
> 2.2.0.25-69.1mib2010.2 but have to wait until tomorrow evening to test
> it with them.
>

If you and them see your video, the problem can be the connection.
Maybe their upload speed is too low.
Can you try skype in Mac or Windows and see if the same happens?


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Diego Bello Carreño