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Webcam zooms during skype conversation

Asked by Matt Thompson

Hi,

I've got a webcam (a Creative WebCam Instant), and every once in a while during skype conversations it automatically zooms into the top left quadrant, and expands that to the size of the normal video.

The relevant line from lsusb is:

"Bus 005 Device 002: ID 041e:4034 Creative Technology, Ltd WebCam Instant"

the output of 'lsmod | grep video':

"videodev 41344 1 gspca_main
v4l1_compat 22404 1 videodev
video 25232 0
output 11008 1 video"

and the output of 'lsmod | grep gspca':

"gspca_zc3xx 55936 0
gspca_main 29312 1 gspca_zc3xx
videodev 41344 1 gspca_main
usbcore 149360 6 gspca_zc3xx,gspca_main,usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd"

If anyone can help I'd be very gratefully, google hasn't come up with anything that has worked so far, and the ubuntuforums don't help either.

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Andre Mangan (kyphi) said : 		#1

I have experienced a similar zooming problem where the image would suddenly appear in close-up. You may find the information on this URL useful:

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=107400

The patches did not work for me and I ended up giving my Logitech Quickcam IM to another Ubuntu user who had no problem with it at all (using the same version of Ubuntu).

Currently I use a Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 which uses the uvc standard (built into the kernel) and have had no problems whatsoever.

Skype denies any problem.

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Matt Thompson (mattthompson) said : 		#2

Thanks,

I think I'll end up just getting another camera, it's sad that these problems are still around.

If only skype were open source eh?

Matt