I found this post a while ago...

https://developer.skype.com/SkypeGarage/Sky...alityVideoCalls

and I was wondering if it could be used in the reverse? My fiance has the absolute worst wireless signal in her dorm (when I visited I found the AP and she's literally as far away as she can be, and nothing can improve it) and our calls drop more frequently when we use video. Also, her Windows laptop has been getting slower throughout the semester and now I'm lucky to get a few frames of her video at all. Could I apply the instructions described above and make the quality lower to reduce the bandwidth, and hopefully connection issues?

Btw, I'm assuming dropped calls are due to too many dropped [consecutive] packets, but I don't know too much about the inner-workings of Skype.

Thanks!

Video quality is controlled automatically depending on available bandwidth and network conditions.

Is it possible to have a look at how this is calculated?
I am really having problems receiving vid-calls from a friend (bad quality, incomming only) but his bandwidth should be enough (100kbyte downstream 50kbyte upstream, measured, not theoretical).


thank you very much.

Daniel

I have to just say that the method that Skype uses to automatically throttle down quality must not work very well, because once each of us manually changed our video quality settings, we had less dropped conversations and the framerate was higher. We used 160x120, and it worked just fine. Check it out.

Danst your friends bandwidth is too low. Upload should be at least 128 and download 256.

well... it must be something else than the bandwidth itself, since the bandwidth he measured was 50 kbyte upstream... and i guess the minimum requirements you mention seem to be in kbit, aren't they?

do you know other criteria for the quality settings of the encoder?

Yes indeed you are right.

Computer speed is other criteria and then also connection quality between you two, is it direct or relayed and jitter.