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João Pinto
Asked: 2011-02-04 11:05:31 +0800 CST

Skype shows a blank window on the webcam part what could be the problem?

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The other party is sending their webcam view and I am sending mine, so that they can see everything fine, but i only can see a blank window.

when enabling the "show my webcam" it shows for a few milliseconds but then just disappears.
It happens with two different graphic cards, it's very unlikely to be graphics card related.

Any ideas on what could be the problem?

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1 Answers

  1. As far as I remember skype has a problem with v4l2 (video for linux 2) and has to use vl41 instead but it doesn't know were it is the solution was to shutdown skype then create a script. In a terminal type or paste

    gksudo gedit /usr/local/bin/skype

    and add these lines for a 32bit system

    #!/bin/bash
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype

    or these lines for a 64bit system

    #!/bin/bash
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype

    then type or paste this line in the terminal which will make the script executable

    sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/skype

    after this you can open Skype and check in options/video devices and hit the test button. this should make it possible to see your own webcam and others in skype.

    Hope this helps.

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