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Skype and Ubuntu 4.10 - How to solve the problem of displaying the webcam

Hello everyone, today we see how to run our webcam on skype using version 4.10 of Ubuntu.
Many users, in fact, following an upgrade in recognition of the problems found by webcam skype.

Caution: Make sure your cam is correctly recognized by the system

not know if the webcam is recognized correctly by Linux? Do not worry, open a terminal and type the command lsusb

should see a list of devices :

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b: 0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b: 0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d: 08ad Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate STX
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b: 0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

if your webcam is between devices. Then you could make a further examination using webcam management programs, such as cheese .

Se avete constatato che la webcam "funziona" allora aprite il terminale ed eseguite skype utilizzando il seguente comando :

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype

Controllate nelle opzioni se skype visualizza la vostra webcam.
Se si, potreste voler modificare il vostro lanciatore in modo da avviare skype con la configurazione corretta. Potete farlo modificando il campo comando del lanciatore (dalle proprietà) :



copiando il seguente testo nel campo "comando" :

bash -c "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype"

Buona video-chiamata a tutti !