Hi everyone I was happy for the release of Skype Video. I understand the beta status. I just want to tackle some issues I experience. I cannot view 2 videos on my screen (me and the other user that I video chat with)

Here are summary what I experienced;
1. When I start video chat and my cam is automatically start I can see my self but the other I cannot
2. When I start video chat with manual start of my cam (first the other user will start their cam) and I can see them but my own cam cannot be viewed.
3. on minimize view the cam are dodge cannot view properly unless I full screen it.

Background:
I use Ubuntu Festy Fawn on IBM R40 with webcam Genius 'VideoCAM GF112' and XGL or compiz are turned off so plain window only.

Hope this can be included on Skype Linux Video update.

Regards,

Kutch

It sounds like you don't have 2 Xv ports available. You can double-check by running xvinfo |less from the command-line.

This won't be fixed for the next update I'm afraid.

Andy.

Hi Andy,

It takes me a long time to respond on this topic always busy

Anyway Here is the output of xvinfo;

X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
Adaptor #0: "Intel® Video Overlay"
number of ports: 1
port base: 73
operations supported: PutImage
supported visuals:
depth 24, visualID 0x23
depth 24, visualID 0x24
depth 24, visualID 0x25
depth 24, visualID 0x26
depth 24, visualID 0x27
depth 24, visualID 0x28
depth 24, visualID 0x29
depth 24, visualID 0x2a
number of attributes: 12
"XV_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 16777215)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 66046)
"XV_BRIGHTNESS" (range -128 to 127)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
"XV_CONTRAST" (range 0 to 255)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 64)
"XV_SATURATION" (range 0 to 1023)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 128)
"XV_DOUBLE_BUFFER" (range 0 to 1)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 1)
"XV_PIPE" (range -1 to 1)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is -1)
"XV_GAMMA0" (range 0 to 16777215)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 526344)
"XV_GAMMA1" (range 0 to 16777215)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 1052688)
"XV_GAMMA2" (range 0 to 16777215)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 2105376)
"XV_GAMMA3" (range 0 to 16777215)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 4210752)
"XV_GAMMA4" (range 0 to 16777215)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 8421504)
"XV_GAMMA5" (range 0 to 16777215)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 12632256)
maximum XvImage size: 1920 x 1088
Number of image formats: 4
id: 0x32595559 (YUY2)
guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
bits per pixel: 16
number of planes: 1
type: YUV (packed)

It seems I got it but it's not showing 2 video (me and the other chat)

BTW I re-installed shifted to Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

Hope you can assist me.

Regards,

Kutch

ops! I just noticed in my posting Yes I only got 1

#number of ports: 1

How to add additional port on it?

Thanks,

kutch

Unfortunately, it is a hardware limitation.

We will add other video overlay methods in the future.

Andrew.

Ah ok.

Please let me know for the update of that overlay method to my mail

kutch [@] km33 [.] com

I'm eager to do the test again with skype as I only use Linux and I want to see the smooth way like windows works.

Also can you post somewhere in the forum the list of compatible hardware (video card) to do this work?

Most nvidia video cards seem to work well if you use the proprietary nvidia driver.