Re: [Dorset] Skype

2014-12-07 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday 06 Dec 2014 17:00:00 Terry Coles wrote: So what I have is video from the Trust and audio from the Logitech and Skype seems to work fine. I've only tested it over our internal network so far, but there was zero packet loss and crystal clear video and sound. Well the news is not

Re: [Dorset] Skype

2014-12-07 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 07 Dec 2014 14:04:32 Peter Merchant wrote: That webcam looks just like the one that I got from the market for 50 pence a few weeks ago, that I opened up and it did not have a microphone in it. did you have to add the string env

Re: [Dorset] Skype

2014-12-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, Was Firefox 34 any use? Mentioned in an off-list email to you yesterday. It includes this feature from October: http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/10/16/test-the-new-firefox-hello-webrtc-feature-in-firefox-beta/ ... In fact, it will be Firefox 35 that will support the

Re: [Dorset] Skype

2014-12-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, Well it doesn't and I've now worked out that I probably need an uplink speed of at least 1 Mbps to use Skype with the low-res camera and 4 Mbps to use it with the hi-res one. I have about 480 kbps. Is that based on non-compression of the video stream?

Re: [Dorset] Skype

2014-12-07 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 07 Dec 2014 16:08:23 Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Terry, Was Firefox 34 any use? Mentioned in an off-list email to you yesterday. It includes this feature from October: http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/10/16/test-the-new-firefox-h

Re: [Dorset] Skype

2014-12-07 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 07 Dec 2014 16:13:50 Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Terry, Well it doesn't and I've now worked out that I probably need an uplink speed of at least 1 Mbps to use Skype with the low-res camera and 4 Mbps to use it with the hi-res one. I have about 480 kbps. Is that based on

Re: [Dorset] Skype

2014-12-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/10/16/test-the-new-firefox-hello-webrtc-feature-in-firefox-beta/ In fact, it will be Firefox 35 that will support the 'Hello' feature with video conferencing. The link in the page that you cited is to the beta download.

Re: [Dorset] Skype

2014-12-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, I assume that the extra 850 kbps is the resends. I think $ netstat -s | grep segments retransmited 27 segments retransmited will show you those. You can keep an eye on it over time, untested. l= while :; do sr=`netstat -s | sed -n 's/ segments

Re: [Dorset] Skype

2014-12-07 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 07 Dec 2014 16:45:16 Ralph Corderoy wrote: I have Firefox 34.0 installed here and it doesn't have Hello. 35 improves on 34's Hello. So says http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/12/04/firefox-35-beta-arrives-updated-hello- plugin-free-video-chat-functionality/ and

Re: [Dorset] Skype

2014-12-07 Thread Stephen Wolff
Have you tried Google Hangouts out of interest - had some better experiences (video-wise) than with Skype for work calls fairly recently - with multiple people (ie conference type) using a mixed bag of OSs (ie Ubuntu, OSX, Win7). Might be worth a shot given Google are reasonably OS agnostic? On

[Dorset] Help with companies in Blandford

2014-12-07 Thread Peter Merchant
Please, can anyone help. I know that there are technical companies in the Blandford area, but can't think of any names. I don't mean necessarily Linux specific. One of my uni students worked for a telephony company up there a few years ago. I have a student (A-Level) living in Blandford who