Notices

isn't the back camera higher res? if so, that's more pixels to transmit, and thus more bandwidth needed for skype... could lead to problems.

by the way, are there any apps that let you take a still pic using the front camera, with live preview on the display?

if the image is rescaled using software it will probably work, has anyone tried yet?

Some parameters appear to be tweakable at /etc/skyhost/skypevideocodecs.conf but the binaries are pretty locked up, no apparent /dev/video* or gstreamer usage in /usr/lib/skyhost (though I might just be looking at the wrong place).

However, the VideoHost plugin/thingy seems to be a purely Nokia add-on so it might not be impossible to lobby for a camera switch option.

there are a few in the extras repo. I think there is one called mirror or something.

What about using the back cam with Google video chat? How likely is that? Works pretty well with the front camera.

not work rename, this is special file

That'll be great if you can use the back cam for video chat...it's much clearer.

/etc/skyhost/skypevideocodecs.conf

default file

[sender-param]
profile-idc=66
profile-iop=224
level-idc=21
QQVGA-pref=0
QVGA-pref=80
VGA-pref=0

[receiver-param]
profile-idc=66
profile-iop=224
level-idc=21
max-br=100
QQVGA-pref=60
QVGA-pref=0
VGA-pref=0

By changing VGA-pref=80 in the [sender-param] one can send 640x480 videos on skype.


MEanings of the flags:

profile-level-id: A base16 RFC 4648 [9] (hexadecimal) representation
of the following three bytes in the sequence parameter set NAL
unit specified in H.264 [4]: 1) profile_idc, 2) a byte herein
referred to as profile-iop, composed of the values of
constraint_set0_flag, constraint_set1_flag, constraint_set2_flag,
constraint_set3_flag, and reserved_zero_4bits in bit-significance
order, starting from the most significant bit, and 3) level_idc.
Note that reserved_zero_4bits is required to be equal to 0 in
H.264 [4], but other values for it may be specified in the future
by ITU-T or ISO/IEC.

The profile-level-id parameter indicates the default sub-profile,
i.e. the subset of coding tools that may have been used to
generate the stream or that the receiver supports, and the default
level of the stream or the receiver supports.


http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iet...p-h264-rcdo-06

can any one tell me what will be the voip setting on my N900 currently iam using (action voip ) and iam from Dubai UAE

i have tried video call with skype the front camera have very bad qulaity