Webcam help

[sedan374]

I am using Ubuntu 11.10, and my webcam seems to be giving problems. The actual webcam works (at least when I use Cheese), when I click webcam I can see myself in it. However when I try video chatting with someone on gmail they cannot see me. It gives them a black screen. But I can see myself and them. This happened to multiple people I tried chatting with.

Also when I tried video chatting with aMSN messenger it says my webcam could not be found.

Any help on how to overcome these problems is really appreciated. Thanks.

[sedan374]

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[Dude-PWB-]

When you say gmail, are you talking about the gtalk plugin in firefox or are you using pidgin or empathy for gtalk?

I can't say for sure, but i don't think video chat for gtalk is working in ubuntu/linux at the moment. At least I have never gotten it to work. I have not tried it in msn, so I can't speak to that.

If the camera works fine in skype or ekiga, i think that would be the case.

[Dragonbite]

If you are trying to use a program, such as Empathy or Skype, and your webcam does not show the video try this

env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

You can replace "skype" with whatever program you want to have it run.

If you are running it through a browser, then I am not sure if this would work or not.

[fragos]

Make sure you've installed the Google Talk Plugin. If you go into Gmail settings for Chat you'll be offered some configuration options specifically for video chat and a facility to insure they're working correctly.