Comments on: How We Make TechBytes https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2011/05/22/making-techbytes/ Reflections on Technology Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:40:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: Roy Schestowitz https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2011/05/22/making-techbytes/comment-page-1/#comment-33421 Mon, 23 May 2011 20:00:32 +0000 http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/?p=2382#comment-33421 Skype never worked for me. I wasted about 10 hours of my life trying to get different webcams to work with it (Tim has had the same problem) and with SIP clients the webcams work well (for Tim as well).

Where SIP is lacking is probably the inertia Skype built with its botnets and “supernodes”.

Gordon has told me that sip-communicator was renamed, but anyway, I plan to try the latest version. The recorder there seems to work.

]]> By: notzed https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2011/05/22/making-techbytes/comment-page-1/#comment-33393 Sun, 22 May 2011 22:56:12 +0000 http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/?p=2382#comment-33393 fwiw sip-communicator was renamed to jitsi a couple of months ago. http://www.jitsi.org/

The lack of wide video support is a bit strange – apart from the codecs which are the same on every platform, the v4l api is extremely nice and easy to code with (much simpler and easier than that other os). For a product like skype you wonder if they were paid to make sure it didn’t work very well, or otherwise deliberately kept the programmers from making it work properly.

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