Video chat in iChat hogs CPU?

[cy88]

Hi all,

My girlfriend's macbook pro (late 2007) recently developed a symptom where when we do video chat, it hogs 80% of her CPU resource. I tried to isolate the issue by seeing if it hogs in photo booth, turns out it also does!

Does that mean something is wrong with the iSight driver? Anything else I can try to isolate the problem further? The only change happened was the recent update she performed. I just brought my 24" iMac up to date yesterday, everything runs smooth and therefore I suspect it has nothing to do with the update.

Thanks for any help!
Chris

 

[Eidorian]

Video chat and Photo Booth are known CPU hogs. Not to mention that something does have to encode your video to h.264 for transport in iChat.

 

[cy88]

Video chat and Photo Booth are known CPU hogs. Not to mention that something does have to encode your video to h.264 for transport in iChat.

I wouldn't doubt. However, it's taking up 30% of my CPU only, and it was until a few days ago on the MBP.

 

[cy88]

Anyone else? 😉

 

[diddy]

Does she have any of the video effects enabled?

 

[cy88]

Does she have any of the video effects enabled?

When you mean video effects, I would assume it's those sephia, fisheye, dent, etc..

If that's what you mean, nope! It's just pure video chat.

 

[cy88]

I guess there's no other solution but to format it 🙁