On 25-07-2012 23:20, SanskritFritz wrote:
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:49 PM, SanskritFritz <sanskritfritz@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Mauro Santos <registo.mailling@gmail.com> wrote:
There are reports that the uvcvideo module needs to be loaded with nodrop=1 in order to get things to work smoothly, do search in the forums, I believe I saw something about this there.
I can't believe that I did not find this valuable information earlier. Thank you, that solved this problem.
...and just after I wrote this, the system froze again, after several hours of skyping :( This time it happened when I opened a movie during a skype session. nodrop=1 is still on.
I don't know if the graphics card you are using supports video decoding acceleration and if skype can make use of it, but at least here with the ati binary blob, I can only get video decoding acceleration for one video stream at a time, trying to decode 2 videos at the same time with video decoding acceleration results in a hard crash. I have never tried with skype and currently I'm using the free drivers so I have no way to test this. If this is true for your case it should be quite easy to reproduce. It might have been just a random crash caused by skype too, since it isn't the most stable piece of software you can use. -- Mauro Santos