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Spychacz

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Registered: 2008-12-31

Posts: 16

[sloved] Creative Live webcam and HQ Video in Skype

Hello

After installed my Archlinux my webcam not working so I was installed ov51x-jpeg...

downloaded from http://www.rastageeks.org/downloads/ov5 … 5.9.tar.gz

unpacking

$ make
$ make install
modprobe ov51x-jpeg

I have in my mplayer green line various screen the same in Skype even when I added in /etc/modprobe.d/options

options ov51x-jpeg force_palette=13
options ov51x-jpeg forceblock=1

Still the same green line screen - Can you have solution for that?

Last edited by Spychacz (2009-01-02 15:59:15)

Spychacz

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Registered: 2008-12-31

Posts: 16

Re: [sloved] Creative Live webcam and HQ Video in Skype

ok here is solution

First I was remove gspca_ov519

rrmod gspca_ov519

Next I added that module gspca_ov519 to blacklist

/etc/modprobe.d/framebuffer_blacklist

reboot

now I was installed ov51x-jpeg

and added that line options ov51x-jpeg forceblock=1 to

/etc/modprobe.conf

and

/etc/modprobe.d/options

Now my webcam works correctly in Skype and another aplications

High Quality Video 640 x 480 in Skype

Probably you know how to do that...

If you want to send HQ Video 640x480 plese edit file home/user/.Skype/username/config.xml

and in section <Video> add

<CaptureHeight>480</CaptureHeight>
<CaptureWidth>640</CaptureWidth>
<Fps>25</Fps>

Here's my section of Video

<Video>
      <AutoSend>1</AutoSend>
      <CaptureHeight>480</CaptureHeight>
      <CaptureWidth>640</CaptureWidth>
      <Fps>25</Fps>
      <RecvPolicy>callpolicy</RecvPolicy>
</Video>

that's all restart Skype and send HQ Video

Regards

Last edited by Spychacz (2009-01-02 15:58:30)

R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4,734

Re: [sloved] Creative Live webcam and HQ Video in Skype

I can also add only:

<Video>
<Fps>30</Fps>
</Video>

It will send video in the default resolution of 320x240 but will use the fps you set. This solved a strange problem I had with my notebook's webcam.
You can set higher or lower resolutions and fps (if your webcam supports them of course) and skype will use that without problems, I haven't tested with resolutions higher than 640x480 though, maybe it will not work. Oh and you don't even need to restart skype, it will use that setting on the next call

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