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
