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Skype webcam doesn't work

Asked by Stevos May

New to ubuntu, just installed version 10.04.

This is the second issue I can't resolve.
I Installed the latest version of skype (beta version) and my webcam (ELECOM, bought in Japan) doesn't work. It does work in Cheese. In skype it goes to start up but I get a blank white square where my image should be. The person I am calling gets a window up, but the image never loads. The "test webcam" option in skype doesn't work. I can see the webcam image of the person I am calling.

I don't really want to buy a new webcam. Does anyone have any advice?

Thanks

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#1

did you check out skype's linux forum?

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=505131

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Stevos May (stevosmay) said : 		#2

Thanks, the LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

advice worked and I now have the webcam working.

Thanks very much for that suggestion

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Stevos May (stevosmay) said : 		#3

Problem solved

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Bill S. Zamora Jr. (billszamora) said : 		#4

I used this command in Terminal "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype"
but when i click the test camera button... this is the error I received.

X Error, request 132, minor 18, error code 8 BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)

My Netbook Aspire One built-in camera now workin at all... pls help. Im using Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition.

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Bill S. Zamora Jr. (billszamora) said : 		#5

I used this command in Terminal "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype"
but when i click the test camera button... this is the error I received.

X Error, request 132, minor 18, error code 8 BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)

My Netbook Aspire One built-in camera not workin at all... pls help. Im using Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition.