Skype and Web Camera CPU Usage

Sun Feb 22 19:40:31 IST 2009

Hello Moshe

I meant about CPU and not bandwidth. CPU usage you can see both by typing
the command top in a terminal and also when you use a camera, in skype there
is a square which shows you packet loss, jitter, cpu usage, etc.

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Moshe Brace using Yahoo <
mbrace700 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Shavuah Tov
>
> Sara I read your comments and found them to be quite interesting.
>
> When using the latest 4.0 Skype in WinXP there is an indicator which tells
> you the Bandwidth taken up by Video. Probably there is a way in Linux to see
> the Bandwidth usage but the best way I have found to see if I am getting the
> Bandwith I am supposed to have is http://www.speedtest.net/index.php  What
> you can do is try the download upload test twice, once with the camera video
> and once without this will give you an idea of Bandwith loss. This is simple
> to use and anyone can use this page, left click on the Yellow pyramid and
> watch the man send the packets to your computer; Clocks tell you the
> Bandwidth speed..
>
> The camera is not so esential but sometimes I do want  sometimes to use it.
> I do find that even in Windows  if I see that the conversation is going to
> be a long one that I switch off the video. Video phones  are not always the
> success that people think due to the fact they may show if  someone is  not
> exactly telling the truth.
>
> Moshe
> http://moshe.lee.co.il
> --- On *Sun, 22/2/09, sara fink <sara.fink at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> From: sara fink <sara.fink at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie
> questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)
> To: mbrace700 at yahoo.co.uk
> Cc: "Shlomi Fish" <shlomif at iglu.org.il>, "Linux-il" <
> linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
> Date: Sunday, 22 February, 2009, 7:13 PM
>
> Hello Moshe
>
> I had a webcam working with skype. It used 100% cpu. I deleted skype for
> various reasons and won't enter them here. I am curious to know how much cpu
> ekiga uses with the camera?
> Moreover, don't try to understand skype, because it isn't understandable.
>
>
>
> 2009/2/19 Moshe Brace using Yahoo <mbrace700 at yahoo.co.uk>
>
>>  Well I have only praise to say in the way Shlomi Fish answered my queries
>> regarding my Webcam problems, even though I have not succeeded to get it to
>> work. He compiled a file from source for webcams for me. I would never have
>> been able to do this.
>>
>> As a newbe I really appreciate any help I get in sorting out and
>> understanding Linux. Although Mandriva 2009.0 goes some way to making Linux
>> easier to use, there are bugs like this that make one scratch their head. My
>> Logitech Quickcam 8.4.8 Webcam works well in Cheese and Ekiga showing an
>> excellent picture. My previous camera a Pixart PAC207 worked in Skype with
>> Mandriva 2008.1 Spring but in 2009.0 it doesn't. I have read in Forums that
>> other distros also suffer this. So the problem may be with Skype not knowing
>> how to recognise Webcams correctly without a tweak somewhere. I would love
>> to know what to tweak.
>>
>> I tried adding to /etc/modprobe.d a folder called quickcam and in it a
>> text file quickcam.txt that had the line typed:
>> options quickcam compatible=6
>>
>> I ended up reinstalling Mandriva 2009.0 because the 2008.0 disk must be
>> damaged and spending hours installing favourite programmes after it updated.
>>
>>
>> I have decided to live with no Webcam and Canoscan 3200f likewise when
>> using Linux, it beats reinstalling.
>>
>> This is a copy of lsusb:
>>
>>
>> Anyone got any ideas on this.
>>
>> Distro Mandriva 2009.0 Gnome Desktop
>>
>> Can this Logitech QuickCam Chat v8.4.8 be installed so Skype can use it?
>> Ekiga and Cheese recognises work the Camera OK - video display good.
>>
>>
>> [root at localhost ~]# lsusb
>>
>> Bus 008 Device 002: ID 03eb:3301 Atmel Corp. at433301 4-port Hub
>> Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
>>
>> Bus 002 Device 004: ID 1307:0165 Transcend Information, Inc.
>>
>> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04a9:2216 Canon, Inc. Canoscan3200F
>> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
>> Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
>> Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
>>
>> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
>> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
>> Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:08a6 Logitech, Inc.
>> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
>> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
>>
>> [root at localhost ~]#
>>
>> Moshe
>>
>>
>> --- On *Thu, 19/2/09, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il>* wrote:
>>
>> From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il>
>> Subject: Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie
>> questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)
>> To: linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
>> Date: Thursday, 19 February, 2009, 1:16 PM
>>
>> On Thursday 19 February 2009 00:40:07 Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>
>> > > I don't see you, Dotan Cohen, asking questions which were already
>> asked
>> > > recently.  I
>>  don't think that any of your example questions would
>> > > currently qualify as noob questions.  Long time has passed since
>> anyone
>> > > compiled his own kernel in Linux-IL or discussed writing a driver.
>>
>> >
>> > Having unique problems is not the blessing that it looks like!
>> >
>> > Going through the gnubies list, though, I am starting to have two
>> feelings:
>> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/gnubies-il/messages/?yguid=342368143
>>
>> >
>> > 1) Too much spam. Shlomi made a post about the list being moderated,
>> > and right after that there is a spam.
>>
>> That's probably because the spammer has subscribed to the list, and had
>> already posted from this address before I made the list "first-time
>>
>> moderated". In the long-term, spam should still be eliminated there.
>>
>> >
>> > 2) The current noob post is titled "Help with ubuntu.... please...
>> ".
>> > This will be easy for the gurus to
>>  ignore, and if you are bored, you
>> > could get in there and help the guy. We _need_ more Linux users in
>> > Israel, and just ignoring the noobs will make them go back to the OS
>> > that they came from. If anything, we have one more user filling up
>>
>> > Israeli apache logfiles with guarenteed non-IE hits.
>>
>> Right.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> 	Shlomi Fish
>>
>> --
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>>
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>>
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>> trying to
>>            achieve?
>>
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>>
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