I recently installed the most recent version of Skype that runs on a
PowerPC Mac on my dual 1.25 G4 MDD. This works fine for making voice
calls and sharing text information using the chat function. However,
when I tried to share my desktop the other party said the image was
grainy to the point of being useless. On my end, the computer slowed
down horribly, almost to a standstill. I was trying to work on a
remote server through an ssh connection in Terminal and commands put
into Terminal would take tens of seconds to minutes to be sent out and
execute.
This MDD has 2GB RAM and an ATI 9800 video card. My impression is that
this video function in Skype is not making use of the graphics card at
all, just totally tying up the CPUs. Or might it be that it was totally
tying up the on-board ethernet I/O? Audio was fine the whole time...
Have any of you ever used video chat with Skype on a G4? My
understanding is that the desktop share uses the same protocol. If
video chat doesn't work, then desktop share probably won't either.
If you have gotten video chat working with Skype on a G4, how did you do
it and how well did it work?
Bruce
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