Hi Lars, On Friday 07 December 2007 11:12, Lars Schimmer wrote: > Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > - Skype could stop streaming, change the frame rate and restart > > streaming. Ditto about the webcam crash. > > > > It would be interesting to write a small application to stress-test > > different use cases and see what works before making modifications to > > Skype or to the driver. > > Just a sidenote, as I see it nearly in every place: > Is skype THE standard, teh reference to test upon? > As I see, most people say: skype for Linux with video is out! And my > webcam doesn't work, so, driver team, change the driver, make it work > with skype! > > In my eyes, skype is the bad boy who is not working 100% correct and the > skype team has to change it, but since skype is out, nearly everyone > measures against skype and think "skype is perfect and bugfree", seems > to be...
I can't agree more with you. I don't treat Skype-related issues differently than other issues. If the driver is at fault because it doesn't implement a feature according to the V4L2 spec, I will try to fix it. On the other hand, if the application behaves incorrectly, I won't be able to look at its source code so I tell users to report the problem to Skype technical support. As far as I'm concerned, Skype is a second-class citizen that I don't care much about. If it works, fine, but if it doesn't I'm definitely not going to add workarounds to the driver. Best regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list Linux-uvc-devel@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
