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hello,
I know that this is an issue that has been discussed many times, but i would be appreciate if someone can propose me a webcam which work with skype out-of-the box.
At the moment i have a Logitech Communicate STX but i 've the green horizontal lines although i've tried the LD_PRELOAD trick.
Which webcams are you using with skype ?
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I don't even know what webcam I have. This is the lsusb output though:
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:08d9 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Connect
It works with the LD_PRELOAD as you called it
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Just got my Logitech E 3500 today. It worked immediatly and has a good image quality (i think) but the cam seems to have problems with motions - they look very laggy to me. Well it's cheap and works out of box.
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I've had a Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 for about a year now that worked "out of the box" for me. no issues......
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I have to correct my first post - the "laggy motion capture" seems to be caused by my slow internet connection instead of the cam.
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Does any of you use a Hercules webcam ?
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I have Hercules Dualpix Exchange and it works out of the box (uvcvideo module)
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you should see that list of webcams that uvcvideo driver support
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
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I have Hercules Dualpix Exchange and it works out of the box (uvcvideo module)
Are you happy with the quality of images and video ?
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The camera I have, ID 046d:08d7, is a Logitech Communicate STX. It works perfectly well in Skype with the trick. I'm using Arch64 so Skype is running from a chrooted 32bit directory. I simply made another starter (eg. opt/arch32/usr/bin/skype_video) pointing at this executable file:
#!/bin/sh
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
Does your camera have another ID than mine?
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id: 046d:08d7
But it is not working!!!
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Works with the uvcview driver.
Works (almost) out of the box. The capture framerate must be manually set/forced in skype's config file, otherwise there is some strange image "interference".
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I don't remember exactly how it was, and since I run Skype from a 32bit directory I'm not 100% sure if this is applicable. For some reason I couldn't get a one-line command to work, but if creating the above mentioned executable file, which I gave the name skype_video, it works perfectly well when I run schroot -p skype_video. Otherwise it always complained about not finding that v4l1compat.so file.
Test to create a file in for example /usr/bin/ like mine and see if it works. In my case the camera works excellent, and gives very good video quality for the price.
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don't know why you have problems with skype. i just install bin32-skype from aur and it works flawless
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
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