Skype not getting video from webcam

[Luigi Rizzo]

Hi,
I just tried (stable/8 as of end of 09-2010) skype 2.0.0.72 with
webcamd, and the video driver seems to get incorrect data, see

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/doc/skype_webcamd.gif

there are changing pixels in the first 8-10 rows
(160 pixels each in the preview) which seem to be related
to changes in the image. The remaining area is still though
not always the same in different runs of the program.

The camera with pwcview works at 320x240 and 640x480,
but not at 352x288 (for the records, the same camera
under 7.x and linux-gspca-kmod did work also at other
resolutions, but linux-gspca-kmod is based on a different
version of gspca so the problem might be there).

Any idea on how to track the issue ?

cheers
luigi


On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:42:09AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Jashank Jeremy <jashank.jeremy at optusnet.com.au> (from Mon, 4  
> Oct 2010 22:05:35 +1100):
> 
> >On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:29:27PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> >>Please specify your FreeBSD version. If 8.1-RELEASE (or older): this
> >>will not work, you need to update to a recent -stable.
> >
> >FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #0 r213358: Sun Oct  3 22:32:42 EST 2010      
> >root at jashank.vk2pj.dyndns.org:/usr/obj/src/src8/sys/jashank4  amd64
> >
> >>If this is on -stable or -current, please provide the output of "ident
> >>/sys/compat/linux/linux_ioctl.c".
> >
> >$FreeBSD: stable/8/sys/compat/linux/linux_ioctl.c 210608 2010-07-29  
> >14:23:58Z netchild $
> 
> Ok, you have my MFC of this code in -stable. Theoretically it should work...
> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.
> 
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