Webcam works in Cheese but not Skype

[Jefferythewind]

Hello everyone,
I have a little IBM webcam. I don't think IBM actually makes webcams so i don't know exactly what kind of cam it is. I would like to use this webcam on Skype, but it doesn't seem to work. I can use it on Cheese Webcam Booth no problem but in Skype i just get a screen with multi-colored lines. Does Anybody know anything that would help me?
Thanks a lot,

[Claus7]

Hello,

since I can see that you are using jaunty, this might help you as well:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ighlight=skype

Regards!

[Jefferythewind]

Hey Thanks, i haven't tried it yet but it looks like it should work.

[Jefferythewind]

Hi,
I just ran that command, and it works great! I still have the same question that was posted on that other thread; how to have the command already loaded at startup? I know i could probably put it in the Startup Apps list, but then it would open skype automatically every time also. Is there somewhere in the Skype code where i would put something in?

Thanks

[idodos]

Just create a text file with gedit with that command in it.
Make it executable and change the Skype link to use it.

[Jefferythewind]

idodos thanks for the help, got it!

[PCZahra]

How about in Unity? It's still doing it here.

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

What DOES work is using Skype's "share my screen" feature to share the Cheese window. Go figure.

[overdrank]

Please start a new thread for your issues. No need to revive a sleeping thread.