net-im/skype-devel

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:50:52 +0200 (CEST)
Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote:

> In article <20120604120054.GA1849 at tiny> you write:
> >Hi,
> Hi!
> >
> >I run 10-CURRENT r235646 and CVS updated ports (both from May, 19);
> >
> >skype-2.1.0.81,1 is working fine, uncluding viedo: the port
> >net-im/skype-devel still says, that video is broken;
> >
> >is there some pre-view to test or to help debugging?
> 
> I'm not itetcu but...
> 
>  Skype is closed source so it's not easy to find out why video
> doesn't work with the version in net-im/skype-devel, but IIRC
> linux_kdump showed it's trying to use the Linux inotify syscall
> which is still missing in the Linuxolator.  Is this the cause video
> doesn't work? 

Last time I tested, yes, that was one of the problems.
Current beta from skype is at .99, you could give it a try, but I don't
expect anything better. And upcoming 3 is even worse.

> Only those with the source know...

Well, yeh. Trouble is linux version has the lowest priority (and the
user base is constant, unlike the user base for the other versions);
and while the skype devs are really nice people, there's a high level
of "institutional legal paranoia" which doesn't help at all. So ...



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