Video capture test with the Eee
It's Monday night here in the sticks so I'm bound for the couch and some television. Before I unplug, I wanted to rip off a quick, two minute video recording from the Eee PC to see how well or poor it worked. As you can tell, the frame-rate is not that great and for some reason the sound is fairly low as well. That's surprising to me because on prior Skype call, the quality was outstanding. I'm not sure if the issues here are the hardware, software, both or plain ol' user error, but the experience is less than optimal. Usable yes, but definitely not fantastic.
Obviously not much to see here since I'm using the Eee to record the video; more to follow for sure. But not tonight. ;)
At least the picture is fairly clear. Should be powerful enough to record a webcam clip & encode at full framerate. Maybe it's the webcam software?
The whine is similar to recording audio with the internal mic on the Q1 which is unfortunate.. except there's no harddrive seek noise due to the lack of harddrive.
Posted by: Rodfather | November 05, 2007 at 07:34 PM
Ok....I have an OQO 2 and a p1610, so how on earth to I juatify to myself buying one of these??
Posted by: scott | November 05, 2007 at 07:42 PM
Wow, not bad at all for a $400 computer. I was contemplating on getting this for my family but you may have just sold me one of these.
Posted by: zunq | November 05, 2007 at 07:47 PM
Scott, if you bought a OQO 2 *AND* a P1610, you threw fiscal discipline straight out the window!! :-)
You don't any more an excuse to buy it than you did to buy the other two. You're a gadget junkie, accept it! LOL!
Posted by: Stephen Feger | November 05, 2007 at 08:26 PM
Actually, with respect to the quality of the video and audio, I have to say I am pretty impressed for a $399 laptop. Some tweaking may be necessary (especially on the audio). But not bad at all IMO.
Posted by: Stephen Feger | November 05, 2007 at 08:30 PM
Stephen,
Excellent point and good enough reason for me to buy it LOL...I just cant help myself...Well I bought a new desktop today so maybe I will wait until tomorrow
Posted by: scott | November 05, 2007 at 08:35 PM
The colour and clarity of the vid was great. The motion capture was medium. The Buzzzzzzz almost drowned out the weak audio. It seems impossible that such a cool little unit would have a direct mike pickup of the cooling fan! Hope there's an adjustment to be made.
Maybe hold up a mirror and let the eee take its own picture.
Looking forward to additional posts.
Posted by: Al | November 05, 2007 at 08:58 PM
Wow, that wasn't very good. However, we won't really know how useful the cam/mic combo is until Skype enables video on Linux. Or you bring that machine to a crawl with XP.
Posted by: Dave Zatz | November 05, 2007 at 10:00 PM
Kevin and I Skyped on the EEE for a long time last night. It was one of the best audio Skypes I've heard and better than when Kevin uses his MacBook Pro without a headset.
Posted by: James Kendrick | November 06, 2007 at 06:20 AM
>>>the experience is less than optimal. Usable yes, but definitely not fantastic.
I refuse to enter the Jetsons/Star Trek world of screening my face. I am an old fashioned voice man (but if I could get away with it, I'd be just SMS!).
Posted by: Mike Cane | November 06, 2007 at 12:35 PM