| Summary: | Skype Video -- Poor Quality and Forced Log Out of KDE | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | Andy Liebman <AndrewL733> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | Sander Lepik <mageia> |
| Status: | RESOLVED OLD | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | zen25000 |
| Version: | 2 | Keywords: | NEEDINFO, Triaged |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Source RPM: | get-skype | CVE: | |
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Description
Andy Liebman
2012-03-11 19:06:23 CET
Hi, thanks for reporting this bug. Sander any ideas ? (Please set the status to 'assigned' if you are working on it) Keywords:
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Triaged (In reply to comment #0) > Previously I was running Mandriva 2011 on this same Macbook Pro 8,1 and Skype > video was fine. > > My conclusion is there may be something wrong with the v4l or v4l2 processing > in Mangeia 2. > > How can I help you troubleshoot this? Skype dynamically adjusts transmitted image quality in line with available bandwidth. The low frame rate and pixellated image would be in keeping with this action, so my first impression would be that this is being caused by network issues. I have seen this effect in action and it resembles your description. It may be worth verifying the camera and v4l operation by using vlc. In vlc use CTRL/c to open the capture dialog. Set the capture mode to v4l (whichever version), then set device to /dev/video0 and hit play. You can check the video quality and then CTRL/j to see the codecs in use. The 'statistics' tab will show stream errors etc. You can compare this info on both machines. CC:
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zen25000 I will try your suggestion, but I doubt this is relevant. I was testing between two Macbook Pros in my office, with both machines on the wired LAN (with very fast Internet). The video going from the Macbook Pro 5,1 with Mandriva 2011 was always displayed smoothly on the Macbook Pro 8,2 with Mageia 2. However, the reverse was not true. The video coming FROM the Mageia system was poor on the Mandriva 2011 system. I also rebooted the Mandriva 2011 system into OS X and the video coming from Mageia was still poor. And I rebooted the Mageia system into OS X and the video was always good on the Macbook Pro 5,1 system -- whether that was booted into Mandriva or OS X. So, there is nothing physically wrong with the Macbook Pro 8,2 system or camera. It is only a problem when running Mageia. There may be some sort of incompatibility between the "Facetime" camera on the Macbook Pro 8,2 machine and Video for Linux. But it didn't see this when I was running Mandriva 2011 on the Macbook Pro 8,2 machine. Hi, I tested VLC as you suggested and the video quality looks excellent on the Mageia laptop. There are no errors detected. I installed VLC on Mandriva 2011 but it couldn't open my iSight video, so I cannot compare the two computers. Hi, This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment. Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2. Thanks :) Cheers, marja Keywords:
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NEEDINFO This bug is STILL Valid for Mageia 2. On the exact same laptop, I have confirmed that Skype Video transmission when running Kubuntu 12.04 works fine, so my conclusion is that Mageia 2 has something wrong with the way VideoForLinuxv4 hooks into the "Facetime" camera on this laptop. Please don't blame this problem on Skype. I know it's not a generic Mageia 2 problem either because I have an Acer 5735Z laptop and Skype Video transmission works fine from THAT laptop. Version:
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Manuel Hiebel
2012-06-17 16:19:03 CEST
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(none) Please look at the bottom of this mail to see whether you're the assignee of this bug, if you don't already know whether you are. If you're the assignee: We'd like to know for sure whether this bug was assigned correctly. Please change status to ASSIGNED if it is, or put OK on the whiteboard instead. If you don't have a clue and don't see a way to find out, then please put NEEDHELP on the whiteboard. Please assign back to Bug Squad or to the correct person to solve this bug if we were wrong to assign it to you, and explain why. Thanks :) **************************** @ the reporter and persons in the cc of this bug: If you have any new information that wasn't given before (like this bug being valid for another version of Mageia, too, or it being solved) please tell us. @ the reporter of this bug If you didn't reply yet to a request for more information, please do so within two weeks from now. Thanks all :-D (In reply to comment #6) > This bug is STILL Valid for Mageia 2. > > On the exact same laptop, I have confirmed that Skype Video transmission when > running Kubuntu 12.04 works fine, so my conclusion is that Mageia 2 has > something wrong with the way VideoForLinuxv4 hooks into the "Facetime" camera > on this laptop. > > Please don't blame this problem on Skype. I know it's not a generic Mageia 2 > problem either because I have an Acer 5735Z laptop and Skype Video transmission > works fine from THAT laptop. Can you please test with get-skype 4.0.0.8 from Nonfree Updates Testing. Does it change anything or not? Keywords:
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NEEDINFO This message is a reminder that Mageia 2 is nearing its end of life. Approximately one month from now Mageia will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Mageia 2. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX (EOL) if it remains open with a Mageia 'version' of '2'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Mageia version prior to Mageia 2's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Mageia 2 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Mageia, you are encouraged to click on "Version" and change it against that version of Mageia. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Mageia release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. -- The Mageia Bugsquad I think this problem may be associated with my Macbook Pro. It is a triple boot (OS X 10.8.5, Mageia 3, Windows 8) and all my friends tell me my Skype video is almost frozen all the time -- whether I boot in OS X, Linux or Windows. By contrast, my friends see my Google Hangouts video fine with good motion with any OS. Mageia 2 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on ''22 November''. Mageia 2 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia and reopen this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. -- The Mageia Bugsquad Status:
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