Kopete & video

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 18:42 +0000, Keith Powell wrote:
> On Monday 22 January 2007 4:28 pm, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> >
> > What does mplayer tv:// -tv
> > driver=v4l:width=XXX:height=YYY:device=/dev/video0 show?
> > If the picture is still jerky, it's a driver problem (or
> > Video4Linux problem).
> > If the image is perfect, it's a amsn problem.
> >
> > - Gilboa
> 
> Gilboa.
> 
> With me, the picture is very brown looking (as always), but is smooth 
> with negligible jerking.
> 
> I find that aMSN and Kopete are like that when I am not connected to 
> anyone. It is when I am connected that there is a lot of jerkiness 
> and the typing is very sluggish appearing on the screen.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Keith

I'm guessing here, but it seems to me that both kopete and aMsn throttle
down the FPS if the upstream bandwidth is too low.

- Gilboa