Video freezes Mac to Windows

Every time I make a video call to either my mom or my daughter my video freezes after about 20 - 60 seconds after which they can no longer see me. I can still see them and they can still hear me fine—just no video from me. Both my mom and daughter can use video chat with each other using their Windows clients with no issues. Now that my daughter is home from college I was able to test with her computer on the same network as my Mac. I disabled her Windows firewall and tested with the exact same results. This rules out her firewall blocking video from me.
My Computer:
OS X Yosemite
Version 10.10.1
Mac mini (Mid 2011)
Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Skype Version 7.2 (412)
External Web Cam
iBuffalo BSW50KM01H
This camera is specifically tailored and advertised to be compatible with Skype which is why I bought it. It works perfectly with Photo Booth and perfectly with FaceTime
My Daughter’s Computer:
HP Pavilion 15-b142dx
Processor: AMD A6-4455M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics 2.10 GHz
Installed memory (RAM): 8.00 GB
Windows 8.1
Skype Version 7.0.0.102
This issue has been ongoing ever since I upgraded to OS X Mavericks and now with OS X Yosemite which is almost two years. The frequency of use is low enough that I’ve just been waiting for a fix (which I’ve come to realise won’t happen without my complaining and log files). This issue happens every time I try to video call to a Windows client. It never happens when I video call to another Apple device with Skype installed like iPhone. Let me be clear, this ONLY happens when I try to video chat, using Skype, to Windows clients…and it’s EVERY TIME.
Please find my SkypeFirstAid Report log at the following URL:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=7CB89A90A7A66325!515&authkey=!AHPxiScJ-OkYPVU&ithint=file%2czi...
Thanks and regards,
Miguel

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