When I start my camera in video call on Skype 4.1. incoming video is flashing blue?

Solution 1:

I've discovered a really crappy work-around, if you move the contacts window (or any window) over the part of the chat window showing YOUR video (the small thumbnail in the corner) the flickering stops.

Somehow the problem is related to showing both the video thumbnail and the remote video at the same time.

I've also tried upgrading xserver-xorg-video-intel from 2.9 to 2.15, changing between uxa and sna acceleration, and setting the XvPreferOverlay xorg option to true - none make a difference.

It doesn't happen with the fbdev driver - but it is unable to render more than 1fps full-screen video.