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satchmosgroove

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From: Long Beach, NY

Registered: 2010-01-13

Posts: 88

Skype - I don't see Video, others do [Solved]

Hi,

I have a strange issue in Skype since 1 or 2 weeks. I can turn on video in a skype call and others see me, but I don't see myself as I don't see them. Under options I don't see a test video. The device I can select is correct: uvc camera on /dev/video and I can open /dev/video in vlc and it's running perfect.

I have a Logitech C250 and vlc 1.0.4-1, skype 2.1.0.47-2 and kernel is 2.6.32.3-1 and uvc module is loaded. It worked 3 weeks ago; only thing I did was pacman -Syu. As I did several in the meantime, I am not able to track it down to a specific update.

Anyone a hint or same problem?

Last edited by satchmosgroove (2010-02-14 19:29:48)

BlueRain

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Registered: 2010-01-12

Posts: 6

Re: Skype - I don't see Video, others do [Solved]

This problem is also reproducible for me as well. Happend on both my Gentoo and Ubuntu machines. My kernel was running 2.6.31. I have no idea, even now, what the problem is. My webcam is Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000. I haven't looked into what the problem is either so, I can't give any other advise. But I do have the same problem. I can speculate the problem resides in the software itself and not our settings.

Just letting you know.

brianhanna

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Registered: 2009-10-30

Posts: 157

Re: Skype - I don't see Video, others do [Solved]

I'm not sure what wm you're running but I noticed this problem with openbox when I had xcompmgr running.  If I killed xcompmgr I had video again.  That's a total shot in the dark since I have no idea what you're using.

satchmosgroove

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From: Long Beach, NY

Registered: 2010-01-13

Posts: 88

Re: Skype - I don't see Video, others do [Solved]

at least  I am not alone ;-) the whole thing sounded a little strange to me.

I use a full kde desktop, but as my camera sends fine and I see myself in vlc, I guess it's skype related. Can I file a bug for skype somewhere?

zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: Skype - I don't see Video, others do [Solved]

Run into a similar problem a while ago myself.

But in my case the solution is the reversal of brianhanna's, I had to enable composite (via xcompmgr) in order to have video (I'm using Openbox, BTW).

So, if you're using KDE4, try disable/enable composite and see if it help.

satchmosgroove

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From: Long Beach, NY

Registered: 2010-01-13

Posts: 88

Re: Skype - I don't see Video, others do [Solved]

hmm, compositing on/off did not help. But I'll try some other things.

Thanks for your answers, so far!

satchmosgroove

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From: Long Beach, NY

Registered: 2010-01-13

Posts: 88

Re: Skype - I don't see Video, others do [Solved]

Hi,

just to close this thread: I removed vlc-plugin, and here I go. Skype video is working again.