iBook G4/ Logitek Notebook Pro IOXperts Video 1.1.2a20 driver

[Steve Sisak]

At 10:29 AM +0300 10/31/06, Neville Strange wrote:
>Its only this morning when I loaded the latest IOXPERt driver that 
>the problem of skype crashing manifested itself.

Well, I've got a lead on Skype crashing -- not a great answer however:

It appears that Skype is calling Quicktime (specifically the video 
digitizer) from an alternate thread.

Simply put, this is illegal. QuickTime is not thread-safe and _must_ 
be called from the main thread (or at least the same thread as the 
user interface).

I don't know if there's anything I can do from within the driver to 
address this -- the crash I saw was when the driver was trying to to 
allocate a GWorld to decompress data coming back from the camera.

(The driver uses QT internally to do software pan/tilt/zoom, which is 
on by default in this release, which may make the problem more likely 
to show up)

If you get lucky and the main thread happens to be idle at the time 
the call is made, it might work some (or even a lot) of the time.

In any case, I'm talking w/Skype and will keep the list posted on progress.

-Steve

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