ISight -Very slow movement of me

The images on the screen I'm communicating with (the image of me) are described as moving very slowly and stilted, rather then in real time movement.On my screen, it is also slo-mo-Yet, those people say they dont have that problem with others. Any ideas?

Hi All,
Have you set the System Preferences > Quicktime > Streamimg speed to match your Download speed.
This is a good place to start.
Also when in a chat open the Connection Doctor in the Video menu of iChat and tells what frame rates yuo have at your end and from your Buddies.
Most likely it is your Processor is busy with something else. (Downloads are worst)
Open Activity Monitor from Application/Utilities and add up the CPU usage.
iChat, iChatAgent and vcencoder are ichat related items
Often people have spotted a PrintMonitor/manager that is stuck whihc can be Force Quit when highlighted.
9:23 PM Thursday; July 13, 2006

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aoisenshi9 wrote:
Bright and early, tested my iSight, and it's still running at a slow frame rate!
And it's not just displaying slowly, it's also capturing video very slowly. Might my 27" LED Cinema Display be bad...? They're still very new, so maybe there haven't been enough people to use them to have a large enough sample size?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3258
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