Poor performance of facetime on macbook air while it works fine with other devices

Hi all,
I am experiencing poor performance when using facetime with my macbook air (image is poor and voice keeps breaking) while facetime works absolutely fine with my iphone or ipad. Skype works fie with the macbook as well. I have fiber optic connection with plenty of bandwidth. Any ideas?
Dimitri

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