Guest Touch Graphite Posted January 5, 2011 Report Posted January 5, 2011 I'm currently away on business, sat in some ropey Corby Hotel, beats the delights of S Wales anyway. I convinced the misses last night to get yahoo messenger on her Dell Mini Netbook to crank up yahoo messenger and get a video chat going. It runs OK but her webcam quality was shocking when shown full screen on the vega, and I know that it runs better when chatting through Windows Live messenger. Strange as my little webcam preview on the bottom right is quite good! But its the vega mic thats shutting this door for me. There's the loudest weirdest noise thats like blowing into the mic every 1/2 a second thats so loud, its fed back to me through her netbook speakers and back to her mic and back to me. Im going nuts at the noise hearing it through the vega speakers. I've traced it with a mic mute on the vega end and its definately the vega. Further testes using a skype to skype call using the same devices and the sound goes. So it cant be feedback. Anyone care to comment on said problem!?
Guest trevor432990 Posted January 5, 2011 Report Posted January 5, 2011 (edited) Try using headphones next time and see if the problem persists then if it does go through the Yahoo webcam/mic setup routine again and let us know how you get on? :unsure: Update:- See someone is also suggesting using a Bluetooth hands-free earpiece/mic system which might work even better Edited January 5, 2011 by trevor432990
Guest debs626 Posted January 5, 2011 Report Posted January 5, 2011 Re the video quality ...... I noticed the large video quality on the Vega whilst in chat with my daughter on her ipod touch, the video on the ipod was much smaller and pretty good quality. The yahoo app must broadcast a small size video but because the Vega has a larger screen it streches it and spoils the quality. Never noticed any distortion of the audio tho, will test again later (when she's home) and take more notice :unsure:
Guest T4ylor Posted January 5, 2011 Report Posted January 5, 2011 I have noticed and strange noises when using it with either iPhone, laptop or vega to vega. Sorry I know thats not much help. I have however noticed that the vega seems to freeze quite often when using yahoo chat (sorry don't mean to hijack your thread)
Guest Touch Graphite Posted January 5, 2011 Report Posted January 5, 2011 Im happy to test it to someone whos up for chatting to a welshman in a random hotel room. (Usage £5/min charge applies!) Preferrable to someone whos got a working exmaple on a desktop or laptop.
Guest Touch Graphite Posted January 5, 2011 Report Posted January 5, 2011 Re the video quality ...... I noticed the large video quality on the Vega whilst in chat with my daughter on her ipod touch, the video on the ipod was much smaller and pretty good quality. The yahoo app must broadcast a small size video but because the Vega has a larger screen it streches it and spoils the quality. That would explain it. Is the Yahoo Messenger video chat addon something that someone developed or is it an offical addon!? That would need re-coding then!
Guest trevor432990 Posted January 6, 2011 Report Posted January 6, 2011 As more Android tablets hit the market they will probably update the add-on to improve the image but I'd recommend trying their support website here as they were very helpful when I contacted them a few days ago and they even have a live chat facility so no lengthy waits for email responses.
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