Is 15 fps Normal for Video Chat or Can it Be Better?

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Is 15 fps Normal for Video Chat or Can it Be Better?

Comrades,
I just had my slow video problem resolved through these discussions. I have noticed in other posts that other i-Chat AV users are getting more than 15 fps during their conferences. I assumed 15 fps was the norm. Any advice on how to get frame rate higher and thus improve video quality?

i-Mac G5, i-Book G4, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Feb 20, 2006 3:22 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 21, 2006 2:05 AM in response to ogorki

Hi ogoki,

When iChat starts up it does a Hardware check. Based on the rules that are set up it then decides on the default Chat window and frame rate for your computer.

The only way yo improve this is to buy a faster Mac.

10:04 AM Tuesday; February 21, 2006
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ogorki Author

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Feb 21, 2006 4:38 AM in response to ogorki

Thank for your help and advice here Ralph.
I was curious about frame rate and thought and thought I would ask.
15 fps on my Mac is fine.

cheers!

jerry

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Answer 3

Ryan M.

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Feb 21, 2006 7:28 AM in response to ogorki

In case you were wondering what you're top framerate will be, run the following in Terminal:

/Applications/iChat.app/Contents/MacOS/iChat -errorLogLevel 7

This will return something similar:

2006-02-21 10:25:25.185 iChat[4493] Can't open input server /Users/rmathus/Library/InputManagers/Smart Crash Reports because InputManagers directory is locked down
102528.317833 Loading hardware rules from hardwarerulesH264-G4.plist
102528.318793 Checking H264 hardware rules
102528.319207 Satisfied rule #5 (20:160x120)

The line in bold is what you're interested in. It's fps: specified width x height.

-Ryan

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