February 22nd, 2010 by acmelab68
I was about to teach Skype about how to use HQ video transmission, means a transmission where your video resolution is more than 176×144 or 352×288 (PAL). I’ve read, that adding these lines into your $HOME/.Skype/<your skype user name here>/.config.xml <Video> <CaptureHeight>480</CaptureHeight> <CaptureWidth>640</CaptureWidth> </Video> into the <Lib> section, would Skype make HQ Video transmission. But [...]
March 13th, 2009 by acmelab68
I’m sure this has been described thousands of times, but today it took me again almost one hour to find out how to set up the webcam application on Linux. This HowTo was made for Debian like systems, if you are experienced enough you can easily port this HowTo onto other distros like Fedora/Redhat, Gentoo [...]
December 12th, 2008 by acmelab68
I bought a new webcam few days ago (Tevion MD85872) and had in mind to use it for video conferencing with my family and friends, and this – yes – with Linux. I’ve tried a few messengers, which were told to be able to work with Linux regarding video transmissions. This is the MSN messenger [...]
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November 10th, 2008 by acmelab68
I’m checking cyclic if the zero byte problem with the webcam application cheese is gone meanwhile. So happened today, and no – it’s not. Since I really needed a stream badly today, I’ve looked again for a fix or workaround. But looking on the Internet for this bug reveals that this bug used to happen [...]