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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on December 3, 2007
If you've been following along here on the VoIP Weblog, you know that I've been doing some experimentation with Skype's new High Quality Video. Unforuntately, my testing has been limited to a high-end Windows PC instead of my first generation MacBook that I normally use.
Skype has improved the latest 2.7 beta for Mac OS X to the point where I could actually use the Mac version of Skype for High Quality video. They now default to 640x480, which the iSight camera built into my Mac will support.
I had complained about inadequate debugging information in Skype before. It looks like they improved it in this release as well. I could clearly see I was sending and receiving 640x480 as well as other information previously that was only previously on the PC version.
I did a test between my MacBook and the Dell Precision 390 I had been using for the High Quality video tests. Unfortunately, I could not get the frame rate to be above 15 frames per second. I looked at the traffic flowing between the two computers and for some reason, my router was getting involved in all the communication when it shouldn't. I will need to do more testing to see if I can figure out what's going wrong.
Of course, the video still looked great, though the CPU utilization was around 70% on my MacBook while the call was in session. I guess they're not kidding when they say a Core 2 Duo is the bare minimum.
Skype has improved the latest 2.7 beta for Mac OS X to the point where I could actually use the Mac version of Skype for High Quality video. They now default to 640x480, which the iSight camera built into my Mac will support.
I had complained about inadequate debugging information in Skype before. It looks like they improved it in this release as well. I could clearly see I was sending and receiving 640x480 as well as other information previously that was only previously on the PC version.
I did a test between my MacBook and the Dell Precision 390 I had been using for the High Quality video tests. Unfortunately, I could not get the frame rate to be above 15 frames per second. I looked at the traffic flowing between the two computers and for some reason, my router was getting involved in all the communication when it shouldn't. I will need to do more testing to see if I can figure out what's going wrong.
Of course, the video still looked great, though the CPU utilization was around 70% on my MacBook while the call was in session. I guess they're not kidding when they say a Core 2 Duo is the bare minimum.
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