Mint 15 Olivia x64 Mate

Skype direct from the repos. I can stay on a voice call all day long with no issue. However when I start video chat it seems to close the entire skype randomly. The other day my video chat lasted 1 1/2 hours before skype closed itself. Yesterday only 10 minutes or so. When I say close I mean closed, as in have to restart skype altogether.

Nothing else has this problem. My time on mint has been far more successful than my debian attempts. I have migrated entirely to mint. Haven't booted windows in a week or so and see no reason to (unless i need itunes for phone). Would really like to solve this. I'm hoping it's something fixable and not just a skype problem that I can't do anything about.

instead of running skype from the start menu (depending on what GUI you are running) run it from the command line so you can see exactly what is happening. this will help to troubleshoot the issue.

also hit up the mint forums. this could be a known issue over there.

top it off that Skype is no longer run by a good company but Microsoft and they are in fact working on breaking the Linux and OSx releases as well as giving governments the key to allow them to read/listen/watch your conversations.

There are many alternatives to skype that are much better.

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/0...tives-to-skype

http://voices.yahoo.com/5-free-alter...-12059067.html

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fed-up-...-alternatives/

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I had exactly the same problem on Debian, spent hours trying to figure out why...eventually I just started using Ekiga.

As I mentioned in another post Skype stopped recognising my USB Eminent EM1089 Webcam some time ago although every other non-M$ video application known to woman or man manages to find it at /dev/video0. So no more Skype video for me.
jdk

Did you go to Tools->NSA->Surveillance and click "disable"? The default setting of "enabled" is a known cause for odd system behavior when using Skype.

jdk