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2011-10-10 , 13:17
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Originally Posted by mooglez View Post
But wouldn't that be something that Skype needs to step up to, rather than Nokia?

Or is there some proof that Nokia is activly preventing Skype from being able to do videocalling in N9?
To your first question--it appears Skype has ported their software over... at least, I would THINK it was ported, not rewritten from scratch or treated like a whole new port.

I thought Harmattan was supposed to be this in-between abomination that mixes elements of Maemo with MeeGo so that developers can migrate from Maemo to MeeGo more easily... and yet, this happened. Your latter question is the better one to ask--is there anything actively preventing Skype from porting over easily? Why didn't it support the camera already? Is there some kind of lack of hardware support or crippling or something?

Originally Posted by erendorn View Post
have you compared the front cam image on N900 for "skype", "miror" and gstreamer? skype image is way better, on the very same hardware, because of tweaking and optimisation from the n900 skype devs (that they didn't release for others app to use, so we can't really thank them for that).
How do you think these patches apply on the N9? They don't. So the fact that skype has been released for the N900 is irrelevant.
That really doesn't address the COMPLETE lack of camera support--especially if Maemo had already supported it... assuming this OS is supposed to be compatible and easy to port Maemo apps from. How does releasing Skype on a previous OS version make this irrelevant?
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