Need Help with Linux Video and Skype

2010-09-07 Thread Mark Phillips
I have a Debian testing machine (Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-21) (b...@decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-2))) and the latest Skype for Linux. MY usb camera (external) works with the Skype test feature, but when I try to start a video session in skype it crashes. Icewea

Re: Need Help with Linux Video and Skype

2010-09-07 Thread Jim March
It looks to me like video playback is sucking hard - esp. if Youtube can crash it. I would start with youtube - are your video drivers set up correctly? What happens when you run glxgears at the command line? Do you have the latest flash player? Youtube is all about video output. Video4Linux is

Re: Need Help with Linux Video and Skype

2010-09-07 Thread Mark Phillips
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Jim March <1.jim.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > It looks to me like video playback is sucking hard - esp. if Youtube > can crash it. > > I would start with youtube - are your video drivers set up correctly? > Not sure how to check this > What happens when you run glxge

Re: Need Help with Linux Video and Skype

2010-09-07 Thread Matt Graham
From: Mark Phillips > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Jim March <1.jim.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It looks to me like video playback is sucking hard - esp. if Youtube >> can crash it. Are your video drivers set up correctly? > Not sure how to check this Post the output of "/sbin/lspci | grep VGA

Re: Need Help with Linux Video and Skype

2010-09-07 Thread Mark Phillips
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Mark Phillips > > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Jim March <1.jim.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It looks to me like video playback is sucking hard - esp. if Youtube > >> can crash it. Are your video drivers set up correctly? > > Not sur