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#1 2009-03-03 11:14:45

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webcam that works on skype out-of-the-box ???

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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#2 2009-03-03 14:09:23

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Re: webcam that works on skype out-of-the-box ???

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 wink


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#3 2009-03-03 17:20:54

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Re: webcam that works on skype out-of-the-box ???

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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#4 2009-03-03 17:37:31

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Re: webcam that works on skype out-of-the-box ???

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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#5 2009-03-03 20:54:45

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Re: webcam that works on skype out-of-the-box ???

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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#6 2009-03-04 08:28:50

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Re: webcam that works on skype out-of-the-box ???

Does any of you use a Hercules webcam ?

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#7 2009-03-04 11:26:47

ArchHK
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Re: webcam that works on skype out-of-the-box ???

I have Hercules Dualpix Exchange and it works out of the box (uvcvideo module)

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#8 2009-03-04 11:54:54

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Re: webcam that works on skype out-of-the-box ???

you should see that list of webcams that uvcvideo driver support


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#9 2009-03-04 19:22:04

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Re: webcam that works on skype out-of-the-box ???

ArchHK wrote:

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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#10 2009-03-04 20:34:42

KimTjik
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From: Sweden
Registered: 2007-08-22
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Re: webcam that works on skype out-of-the-box ???

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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#11 2009-03-04 21:17:14

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Re: webcam that works on skype out-of-the-box ???

id:     046d:08d7


But it is not working!!!

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#12 2009-03-04 22:17:17

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Re: webcam that works on skype out-of-the-box ???

04f2:b066 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
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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#13 2009-03-04 22:24:53

KimTjik
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Re: webcam that works on skype out-of-the-box ???

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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#14 2009-03-04 22:30:38

wonder
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Re: webcam that works on skype out-of-the-box ???

don't know why you have problems with skype. i just install bin32-skype from aur and it works flawless


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