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Re:Skype group video calling becomes free by rikkus on Monday April 28, 2014 @12:58PM (#7661207)
Lack of GPU acceleration of Flash?
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Re:Skype group video calling becomes free by tambourine_man on Monday April 28, 2014 @01:56PM (#7661690)
It uses WebRTC and the video tag AFAIK
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Re:Skype group video calling becomes free by kansface on Monday April 28, 2014 @06:29PM (#7663548)
Not yet- even on chrome webrtc isn't close to the polish/stability/feature set of the plugin.
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Re:Skype group video calling becomes free by ars on Monday April 28, 2014 @02:18PM (#7661863)
It's not flash, it's a custom plugin.
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Re:Skype group video calling becomes free by coherentpony on Monday April 28, 2014 @01:43PM (#7661598)
Is it Flash? I thought it was just webkit's video rendering.
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Re:Skype group video calling becomes free by mcescalante on Monday April 28, 2014 @04:57PM (#7662999)
I dunno, but it always makes me wonder if they test this on any consumer type machines and if their fans are going as fast as mine...
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Re:Skype group video calling becomes free by aroch on Monday April 28, 2014 @01:41PM (#7661579)
I'm more inclined to think lack of HW-decoding for VP8/9 + Google's "VideoandTalk" plugin on OSX is a piece of crap.
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