Am Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:43:10 +0100 schrieb Laurent Pinchart:

> Hi Andreas,
> 
> On Sunday 16 November 2008, Andreas Volz wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > my brother has a "Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:0992 Logitech, Inc."
> > webcam. According to the website it's fully compatible with
> > uvcvideo. The webcam works well and also skype is showing a (slow)
> > video. It's not that fast but anyway it works.
> >
> > More a problem is that the audio is not fluid and so not really
> > usable. It sounds a little broken and sometime I hear only half
> > words.
> >
> > He has a 800 Mzh PC running Ubuntu Linux. Graphic card is a Nvidia
> > TNT 2 with driver "nv". So my question is if you think that PC is
> > fast enough for realtime audio and video? Or is it maybe a
> > performance problem? The computers CPU while using skype is around
> > 70%.
> 
> Good question. 70% of CPU time is really a lot. I don't know which of
> the processor or Skype (or both) is to blame. Could you measure the
> CPU time with audio only and video only ?

I'll try to measure this in the next days. I'm planing to try an
alternative video chat application to see if it's skype or uvcvideo
itself. I know only ekiga. Do you know alternatives?

regards
Andreas
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