Need Help with Linux Video and Skype

[Jim March]

It looks to me like video playback is sucking hard - esp. if Youtube
can crash it.

I would start with youtube - are your video drivers set up correctly?
What happens when you run glxgears at the command line?  Do you have
the latest flash player?

Youtube is all about video output.  Video4Linux is about input.  When
Skype is working it does both video input and output.  You're blaming
the input side when the experience with youtube suggests the problem
is on output, not input.

Jim

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> I have a Debian testing machine (Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian
> 2.6.32-21) (ben at decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-2))) and
> the latest Skype for Linux. MY usb camera (external) works with the Skype
> test feature, but when I try to start a video session in skype it crashes.
> Iceweasel also crashes when I play 2 or more you-tube videos.
>
> Anyone have an idea how to diagnose this problem?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
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