Friend and fellow mobile technology blogger Kevin Tofel of JKOnTheRun agreed to help me demo a Skype call on the Asus Eee 701 PC. We each have one, installed the beta, ran the webcam power trick (as Ars Technica explained it) and called each other. Here's the video:
It is a beta and is in a rather ... special ... environment on the Eee PC so there were some stability issues. We speculate about them while discussing it. Kevin and I reference two of his videos:
Those are only two bits of his extensive coverage on the device. It's funny - we used to use the Internet over the phone and now we use the phone over the Internet. This is just waiting for a Yakov Smirnoff joke.
I just got an Eee for my wife a few days ago in Thailand. The shop that sold it had it pre-installed with XP because that the only way that it can enable Thai language support. The problem we are having is that Skype on XP on the Eee is not showing incoming video. I think it is there and picking it up - but we cannot see it for some reason - I say this beacause you cannot see the tab that says "Video on Call tab" or Video Full screen- this window is just missing and all you see is your own outgoing video which works fine
Any idea on a tweak I can do to get to show my incoming video. Maybe the people who installed XP forgot to do something?
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I posted this over at jkontherun as well, but figured I'd add it here too.
There's a tray app that will enable/disable the webcam with a nice green/red icon for you. No messing with the command line:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:controlcamera#the_easy_way
I just got an Eee for my wife a few days ago in Thailand. The shop that sold it had it pre-installed with XP because that the only way that it can enable Thai language support. The problem we are having is that Skype on XP on the Eee is not showing incoming video. I think it is there and picking it up - but we cannot see it for some reason - I say this beacause you cannot see the tab that says "Video on Call tab" or Video Full screen- this window is just missing and all you see is your own outgoing video which works fine
Any idea on a tweak I can do to get to show my incoming video. Maybe the people who installed XP forgot to do something?
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