Skype camera not working! (I tried wiki tips)

BlackArts · 2011-02-04 13:20:10

Hi, I'm having problem with getting my integrated video camera to wirk with skype. I've searched wiki, and googled it, but find no solution. Since I don't know which webcam I have in my toshiba, I've been installing and uninstalling drivers from the list in webcam wiki, but that's longprocess so I stopped.

Anyway, I get camera output with guvcview, so I guess it's not driver problem but skype problem. I'm new not just to arch but to linux (about a week of experience), so...
Ok, I tried running skype with this:

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

But no result. I'm guessing lspci command list various interfaces so here's the output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
3f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
3f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
3f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
3f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
3f:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
3f:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)

Thanks for any help.

ralvez · 2011-02-04 19:23:54

I'm not sure I understand.
Do you get to open Skype at all, or you are not able to open Skype and therefore assume it is related to your camera.

Laptops can be a tricky thing with web cams. I have an Acer that recognizes the web cam but not the microphone and therefore I have to use an external one.

In your case I do not see anything in lspci that remotely looks like a web cam ... nevertheless if you get output with guvcview can you identify what device is used as in that program ?
If you can use the same device in your Skype config see if it helps.

R.

Inxsible · 2011-02-04 19:27:32

BlackArts wrote:

Since I don't know which webcam I have in my toshiba,

lsusb

should tell you what camera you have.

milso · 2011-02-04 20:14:33

I'm assuming you've enabled skype video and are using the proper device under skype settings?

BlackArts · 2011-02-05 10:12:09

ralvez wrote:

I'm not sure I understand.
Do you get to open Skype at all, or you are not able to open Skype and therefore assume it is related to your camera.
Laptops can be a tricky thing with web cams. I have an Acer that recognizes the web cam but not the microphone and therefore I have to use an external one.
In your case I do not see anything in lspci that remotely looks like a web cam ... nevertheless if you get output with guvcview can you identify what device is used as in that program ?
If you can use the same device in your Skype config see if it helps.
R.

Skype works, but I get no webcam output when I go to options and video or something. There's option to test video, I click test and ledlamp that indicates that camera is active lights up, but I get no video output from skype.

BlackArts · 2011-02-05 10:40:58

milso wrote:

I'm assuming you've enabled skype video and are using the proper device under skype settings?

yes.

Ok, so I've run lsusb, and below is what I get. I think my webcam is this "Importek" thing. Anyway, when I googled it, i got some fisshy results, crappy importek website and nothing useful all in all. Didn't find anything on wiki either. Any ideas? And this lsusb command... I'm assuming it lists usb interfaces, but does integrated webcam have to be recognised as usb device?

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 10f1:1a2a Importek 
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c046 Logitech, Inc. RX1000 Laser Mouse
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 046d:0a0b Logitech, Inc. ClearChat Pro USB
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0930:0214 Toshiba Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 8564:1000

BlackArts · 2011-02-05 15:35:16

bump

dimitar · 2011-02-05 18:38:51

Stupid suggestion from my side, but just in any case :
1) check if /usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so exists; if not:

pacman -S v4l-utils

2) if you use x86_64, you should instead use

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

Again check if /usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so exists; if not:

pacman -S lib32-v4l-utils

(you know, skype has only 32-bit binary).

I hope this helps. Good luck!

BlackArts · 2011-02-06 09:08:13

dimitar wrote:

Stupid suggestion from my side, but just in any case :
1) check if /usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so exists; if not:
pacman -S v4l-utils
2) if you use x86_64, you should instead use
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
Again check if /usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so exists; if not:
pacman -S lib32-v4l-utils
(you know, skype has only 32-bit binary).
I hope this helps. Good luck!

Unfortunately, it exist . And I'm on 32 bit machine.

R00KIE · 2011-02-06 14:17:03

Install luvcview from the AUR and post the output of 'luvcview -L'.

BlackArts · 2011-02-06 16:38:27

R00KIE wrote:

Install luvcview from the AUR and post the output of 'luvcview -L'.

Ok. Here it is:

luvcview version 0.2.1 
Video driver: x11
A window manager is available
video /dev/video0 
/dev/video0 does not support read i/o
{ pixelformat = 'YUYV', description = 'YUV 4:2:2 (YUYV)' }
{ discrete: width = 640, height = 480 }
        Time interval between frame: 1/30, 1/25, 1/20, 1/15, 1/10, 1/5, 
{ discrete: width = 160, height = 120 }
        Time interval between frame: 1/30, 1/25, 1/20, 1/15, 1/10, 1/5, 
{ discrete: width = 176, height = 144 }
        Time interval between frame: 1/30, 1/25, 1/20, 1/15, 1/10, 1/5, 
{ discrete: width = 320, height = 240 }
        Time interval between frame: 1/30, 1/25, 1/20, 1/15, 1/10, 1/5, 
{ discrete: width = 352, height = 288 }
        Time interval between frame: 1/30, 1/25, 1/20, 1/15, 1/10, 1/5,

R00KIE · 2011-02-06 17:44:44

@BlackArts
Are you using 32bit or 64bit?
Are you using the skype package from the repos?

The output you get from luvcview is very similar to what I get from a webcam that works fine with skype so yours should work too, skype can be picky about the video formats the webcams provide but the format your webcam provides should not be the problem.

BlackArts · 2011-02-07 10:19:15

R00KIE wrote:

@BlackArts
Are you using 32bit or 64bit?
Are you using the skype package from the repos?
The output you get from luvcview is very similar to what I get from a webcam that works fine with skype so yours should work too, skype can be picky about the video formats the webcams provide but the format your webcam provides should not be the problem.

skype from repositories on 32 bit machine. Skype only lit led lamp on my webcam, but I get no picture.

R00KIE · 2011-02-07 10:30:10

Not many ideas here, check dmesg for any errors or warnings and try starting skype from the command line and check if it complains about something. Other than this no more ideas here now.

Koven · 2011-02-10 13:43:48

Hi I tried too wiki tips but nothing worked. So I searched in google a possible answer to this problem and I found that if you set a variable webcam works fine in skype:

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

I created a script to launch from graphical mode and it's working so good. I found this answer in skype forum.

BR

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