skype video issue

[tudor117]

Drpaul,

Make sure your camera works in ubuntu 9.10. Try cheese or a program like that. I've read that your camera may have issues? What camera is it exactly?
For exmaple, see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3847488#post3847488
Good luck.

[angliski]

Have you tried deleting the latest skype, 2.1.0.xx and re-installing 2.0.0.xx?

Cheers

Steve

[angliski]

New Trust spotlight pro arrived this morning. works straight out of the box on both Linux and Windows, (spit, spit, but I had to test it!) excellent picture quality.

Thanks to all of you who tried to help me with my problem. i guess it just a cheap naff camera and wouldn't work even if John Logie Baird had set up the video.

Steve

[drpaul]

thanks for all of the suggestions. as my earlier post mentioned cheese is working.

I tried to go back to 2.0.0; video worked but sound did not. I tried 2.1.0.47 and everything seems to be working.

Hope that this helps others.

Paul

[JGMS]

Whilst reading through the items I wondered why nobody takes the easy route, simply by adjusting the main menu call.

In System/Preferences/Mainmenu select Skype whithin the Internet part of "Applications". Then in "Properties" change the execution line by typing excactly the phrase :

bash -c 'LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype'

for a 32 bit version of Ubuntu

or

bash -c 'LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype'

when you have installed a amd64-version of ubuntu.

[labinnsw]

If you installed from skype's website (the new beta) there will be no skype.real but only a skype executable. You need to rename it to skype.real

Thanks, you are a God send. The complete solution is posted here.

[huangja123]

This works for me too, at least the Test. I have not tried a chat.

Video is not working in Google Chat too. It is a plugin. Can this script be applied? How?

[rdaneel76]

The only solution that worked for me was to downgrade to 2.1.0.47. I was able to find the .deb here: http://download.skype.com/linux/skyp....47-1_i386.deb

I tried all of the other solutions involving lib4l1compat.so etc., but nothing worked. I have an hp pavilion dv2000 laptop with an inbuilt webcam. lsusb tells me it is the following:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia Sonix USB 2.0 Camera

I had to spend the better part of a day figuring this out, so I hope it helps someone.

[beew]

Just see this thread. I am having problem with Skype video in Maverick. Sounds works, built in webcam works in Cheese out of the box but skype's video test just shows a blank box. I have created a thread in the absolute beginner section. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1643387

If anyone stumbling on this thread knows of a way to help, it would be much appreciated.

[labinnsw]

See the link in my post (#36)