Skype Video Conferencing

[geebee75 0]

Hi,

I've discovered that although video chat through Skype works when the conversation is only 1-to-1, but video DOESN'T work when you have more than one person in the video chat.

EG: You and 1 other person in a video chat works, but add a 3rd person to the video chat and video quits and you get audio only.

Is this a Skype for Android limitation, or a hardware/MyGica limitation? Skype's docs in general say it will revert to audio only if the hardware isn't robust enough for 2 video windows. (Which on a 582 I would have thought the HW would be powerful enough).

[Justin 206]

Hi,

I've discovered that although video chat through Skype works when the conversation is only 1-to-1, but video DOESN'T work when you have more than one person in the video chat.

EG: You and 1 other person in a video chat works, but add a 3rd person to the video chat and video quits and you get audio only.

Is this a Skype for Android limitation, or a hardware/MyGica limitation? Skype's docs in general say it will revert to audio only if the hardware isn't robust enough for 2 video windows. (Which on a 582 I would have thought the HW would be powerful enough).

This probably relates to a skype app issue. Unless Skype video is requesting a lot of ram to do more then 1 video at a time.

Have you tried Google Hangouts? for multi video?

[geebee75 0]

So I can confirm at least with my 582, current firmware and current version of Skype that you cannot do a 3-way video conference. Which sucks because this was a show-stopper for my client and now I have to pull out the 582 and put in a small PC or something.

They insist on Skype - not Google or anything else unfortunately. Oh well.

[Justin 206]

Ok sorry about this.

Will try and see if this can be fixed in the future for conferencing on Skype, as this sounds like a neat feature.