Just tried it with a couple of collegues in the Netherlands, and it
worked a treat. No setup (in latest Chrome - Ubuntu and OSX)
Thanks!
On 14/12/2014 23:56, Chris Dennis wrote:
I know I'm very late to this party, but has anyone tried this Skype
alternative?
https://appear.in/
It uses
On Sunday 14 Dec 2014 23:56:02 Chris Dennis wrote:
I know I'm very late to this party, but has anyone tried this Skype
alternative?
https://appear.in/
It uses WebRTC, and claims to be secure.
It's good to know about all these different tools, although this one appears to
be very
I know I'm very late to this party, but has anyone tried this Skype alternative?
https://appear.in/
It uses WebRTC, and claims to be secure.
Cheers
Chris
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On Monday 08 Dec 2014 19:20:55 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
I've worked it out.
Good.
The Mozilla crew didn't enable it by default for all users because
they didn't want everyone hammering their servers at once (Google for
'How to enable Firefox Hello').
You have to do a bit of
On Sunday 07 Dec 2014 21:42:54 Stephen Wolff wrote:
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
On Sunday 07 Dec 2014 16:58:13 Terry Coles wrote:
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-hell
o-
Hi Terry,
I've found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8683830 which
suggests you need to enable it in 34!
I tried, but it isn't in the list of Add-ons. Maybe it is because
Kubuntu's V34.0 is different to the raw one?
I've worked it out.
Good.
The Mozilla crew didn't enable
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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.
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
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
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
On Friday 05 Dec 2014 21:22:02 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
After a bit of Googling, I managed to get the Creative CT6840 working
with Cheese, QTox and Venom, but not Skype ;-(
Was Firefox 34 any use? Mentioned in an off-list email to you
yesterday. It includes this feature from October:
On Friday 05 Dec 2014 16:56:31 Terry Coles wrote:
After a bit of Googling, I managed to get the Creative CT6840 working with
Cheese, QTox and Venom, but not Skype ;-(
I'm seriously considering trying to get my hands on a low-res webcam from
Maplin or PC World. The trouble is, all the
On Thursday 04 Dec 2014 19:33:53 Peter Merchant wrote:
One of the webcams that I could not get working on Skype was identified
as an ov_519.
After a bit of Googling, I managed to get the Creative CT6840 working with
Cheese, QTox and Venom, but not Skype ;-(
I'm seriously considering trying to
Hi Terry,
After a bit of Googling, I managed to get the Creative CT6840 working
with Cheese, QTox and Venom, but not Skype ;-(
Was Firefox 34 any use? Mentioned in an off-list email to you
yesterday. It includes this feature from October:
On Sunday 10 Aug 2014 16:01:38 Terry Coles wrote:
I just tried to use V 4.3.0 for the first time (Kubuntu 14.04; delivered by
update) and it is just about unusable when the video is on. Here are the
symptoms:
1. Remote user complains about video freezing and voice garbled.
2. Video and
On Thursday 04 Dec 2014 17:52:43 Terry Coles wrote:
When I plug it in the system doesn't seem to recognise it as a video camera
but I get this from dmesg:
[ 1510.740065] usb 5-2: new full-speed USB device number 5 using ohci-pci
[ 1510.901122] usb 5-2: New USB device found, idVendor=05a9,
On 04/12/14 19:23, Terry Coles wrote:
On Thursday 04 Dec 2014 17:52:43 Terry Coles wrote:
When I plug it in the system doesn't seem to recognise it as a video camera
but I get this from dmesg:
[ 1510.740065] usb 5-2: new full-speed USB device number 5 using ohci-pci
[ 1510.901122] usb 5-2: New
On Thursday 04 Dec 2014 19:33:53 Peter Merchant wrote:
A bit more info snipped from modprobe:
Module Size Used by
.
gspca_ov51948736 0
gspca_main 36735 1 gspca_ov519
uvcvideo 81065 0
videobuf2_vmalloc 13216 1 uvcvideo
On Friday 08 Aug 2014 13:57:16 Simon P Smith wrote:
You need to download the 4.3 .deb from the skype web site. The 4.2
version does not work with the authentication API anymore. It cut me
off in the middle of a call!
Glad it worked - it also seems to have fixed the pulse audio latency
Hi Terry,
4. Send network bandwidth approx 27 kBytes per second, which is about
what the Internet bandwidth tools tell me I have available on this
connection today.
It seems to me that the new version takes every ounce of bandwidth it
can get, with no cognizance taken of the bandwidth
On Sunday 10 Aug 2014 17:03:37 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-desktop-client/Skype-and-increased-ban
dwidth-usage/td-p/3057790 suggests you can't limit the quality of the video
used; the best the bandwidth can cope with is chosen.
On 07/08/14 20:55, Peter Merchant wrote:
Peter,
You need to download the 4.3 .deb from the skype web site. The 4.2
version does not work with the authentication API anymore. It cut me
off in the middle of a call!
Simon
Thanks Simon, That got everything working again.
Peter
Glad it
On Friday 08 Aug 2014 13:28:32 Terry Coles wrote:
Maybe they decided to withdraw that update.
Answering myself. I thought it odd that I hadn't seen any updates for nearly
a week so I launched the updater manually.
Sure enough, there were a whole raft of updates to be applied, including
On Wednesday 06 Aug 2014 17:23:22 PeterMerchant wrote:
Hi, Be careful of Skype. I have just done some updates on Kubuntu 14.10,
which required a reboot, and now I cannot log into skype. It won't
recognize my password.
Can you remember what the updates were? Skype's working here on 14.10, but
On Thursday 07 Aug 2014 16:58:10 Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday 06 Aug 2014 17:23:22 PeterMerchant wrote:
Hi, Be careful of Skype. I have just done some updates on Kubuntu 14.10,
which required a reboot, and now I cannot log into skype. It won't
recognize my password.
Can you remember
Hi Terry,
Can you remember what the updates were? Skype's working here on
14.10, but I haven't seen any updates today (yet).
/var/log/apt/history.log should say what packages have been upgraded
recently?
Cheers, Ralph.
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On 06/08/14 17:23, PeterMerchant wrote:
Hi, Be careful of Skype. I have just done some updates on Kubuntu
14.10, which required a reboot, and now I cannot log into skype. It
won't recognize my password.
Peter,
You need to download the 4.3 .deb from the skype web site. The 4.2
version does
On 07/08/14 17:22, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Terry,
Can you remember what the updates were? Skype's working here on
14.10, but I haven't seen any updates today (yet).
/var/log/apt/history.log should say what packages have been upgraded
recently?
Cheers, Ralph.
OK, It's 14.04 that I am on.
On 07/08/14 17:42, Simon P Smith wrote:
On 06/08/14 17:23, PeterMerchant wrote:
Hi, Be careful of Skype. I have just done some updates on Kubuntu
14.10, which required a reboot, and now I cannot log into skype. It
won't recognize my password.
Peter,
You need to download the 4.3 .deb from
On Friday 26 Apr 2013 19:08:29 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
It seems to be telling me that the only version available is the one
installed.
Yes, it would, I forgot you'd moved up to the latest 13.04 release of
Ubuntu, sorry.
You're probably getting the package from
Hi Terry,
I'd like to try rolling Skype back to an earlier version, which is
alleged to work. The trouble is that the various pages I've found
just say to do just that without any guidance on what to do.
Is Skype currently from a package from a repository, e.g. the Canonical
`partner' one,
On Friday 26 Apr 2013 15:04:44 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
sudo apt-show-versions -a -R -p ^skype
Hmm. that command is returned not found. I've tried apropos as many
combinations of apt / show / version as I can think of and no-show.
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Hi Terry,
sudo apt-show-versions -a -R -p ^skype
Hmm. that command is returned not found.
It's from package `apt-show-versions'. I thought Ubuntu had a `command
not found' handler set up in bash that would tell you the command wasn't
found, what you may have intended, and in what package
On Friday 26 Apr 2013 16:52:46 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
sudo apt-show-versions -a -R -p ^skype
Hmm. that command is returned not found.
It's from package `apt-show-versions'. I thought Ubuntu had a `command
not found' handler set up in bash that would tell you the command wasn't
found,
Hi Terry,
terry@BEIGE:~$ sudo apt-show-versions -a -R -p ^skype
skype 4.1.0.20.0-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 install ok installed
skype 4.1.0.20.0-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 raring archive.canonical.com
skype/raring uptodate 4.1.0.20.0-0ubuntu0.12.04.2
skype-bin 4.1.0.20.0-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 install ok installed
On Saturday 13 Apr 2013 18:31:56 Natalie Hooper wrote:
My guess would be nvidia, as it's a video driver so it could impact on
whether a camera is found or not (if driver doesn't recognise your
camera anymore for example or if driver sends to Skype some
incompatibility signals).
Well after
On Tuesday 16 Apr 2013 00:36:41 CPK Smithies wrote:
If it would help, I have at home two working 64-bit Ubuntu installations
of Skype. (I was hoping that I had the installation package but alas
no.) I could e-mail the binary off list. I would also be glad to help
any LUG member who wishes to
If it would help, I have at home two working 64-bit Ubuntu installations
of Skype. (I was hoping that I had the installation package but alas
no.) I could e-mail the binary off list. I would also be glad to help
any LUG member who wishes to test Skype. My ID is CPKS00.
Kindest regards to all,
On Saturday 13 Apr 2013 18:31:56 Natalie Hooper wrote:
My guess would be nvidia, as it's a video driver so it could impact on
whether a camera is found or not (if driver doesn't recognise your
camera anymore for example or if driver sends to Skype some
incompatibility signals).
I though
On Saturday 13 Apr 2013 21:11:45 Peter Merchant wrote:
And with our friend google, discovered a forum entry that suggested I
try the following string. I had to stop skype first, and dig out the
password.
sh -c 'LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
/usr/bin/skype $@'
I
Hi Terry,
Just to be on the safe side, I installed qv4l2 and ran it. I was able
to activate the webcam inside that, but still not inside skype.
Does the camera have an activity LED? Does that light at all for Skype?
What about the `test webcam' bit of Skype I see mentioned?
All video
On Sunday 14 Apr 2013 12:26:37 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Does the camera have an activity LED? Does that light at all for Skype?
What about the `test webcam' bit of Skype I see mentioned?
Yes, no and no it doesn't work in the Skype setup.
An interesting development. My mother called this morning
Hi Terry,
An interesting development. My mother called this morning and it
turns out that video has stopped working for her too! Although she
used to run Linux on her Asus netbook, she now runs W7 on her HP
laptop.
On Sunday 14 Apr 2013 16:25:13 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
http://community.skype.com/t5/Video-on-Windows/New-Skype-version-6-3-video-d
oes-not-work-anymore-again-with/td-p/1503746 and
http://community.skype.com/t5/Video-on-Windows/My-webcam-stop-working-after-
the-latest-update-to-skype/m-p/1508454
On Saturday 13 Apr 2013 00:36:00 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
What has changed to stop it working? :-) Perhaps /var/log/apt might
give a clue as to what packages have been upgraded since then, e.g.
kernel. I found
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1147729 which might
be
On Saturday 13 Apr 2013 08:32:03 Terry Coles wrote:
That is almost certainly the problem; the kernel was updated to V 3.5.0-27
two days ago and this is the first time I'd used it since then. It looks
like the previous update, to V 3.5.0-25, took place on the 9th. Apparently
V 3.5.0-26 fixes
On Saturday 13 Apr 2013 12:01:28 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Well, it may be that the fix wasn't for your combination of hardware or
doesn't cover all the breakage in some other way. Could still be worth
trying an old kernel that you still have from when Skype did work.
It doesn't look like it's
On 13 April 2013 13:26, Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote:
On Saturday 13 Apr 2013 12:01:28 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Well, it may be that the fix wasn't for your combination of hardware or
doesn't cover all the breakage in some other way. Could still be worth
trying an old kernel that
Hi Terry,
Natalie wrote:
Start-Date: 2013-04-10 17:30:53
Upgrade: libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 (9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1, 9.0.3-0ubuntu0.1),
My guess would be nvidia
It does stick out as a common culprit of all ills, doesn't it. :-)
Do you have Cheese installed? Does your video camera work in it? If
On 13/04/13 19:13, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Terry,
Natalie wrote:
Start-Date: 2013-04-10 17:30:53
Upgrade: libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 (9.0.2-0ubuntu0.1, 9.0.3-0ubuntu0.1),
My guess would be nvidia
It does stick out as a common culprit of all ills, doesn't it. :-)
Do you have Cheese installed?
Hi,
Is anyone using Skype? On Kubuntu 12.10, video has suddenly stopped working,
although the webcam kernel module has been loaded and works in other
applications.
When I try to enable video in Skype the list box says 'No device found'.
Any thoughts?
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Hi Terry,
Is anyone using Skype? On Kubuntu 12.10, video has suddenly stopped
working, although the webcam kernel module has been loaded and works
in other applications.
When I try to enable video in Skype the list box says 'No device
found'.
What has changed to stop it working? :-)
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