skype ports status and expectations

[Sergey V. Dyatko]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:39:53 +0100 (BST)
Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bris.ac.uk> wrote: 

> I now have a laptop with a camera running FreeBSD.
> I wanted to see if skype or a clone is usable on it.
> It seems there is no workable skype port ATM.
> Have these been working at all in the past?
> Are there any other skype clients?
> Any suggestions for using skype on FreeBSD?
> 
> Thanks
> 

I'm using FreeBSD-CURRENT (amd64) + net-im/skype4. All works fine (I hope). 
http://gyazo.com/258a43fcb34ea384482800fa3d3de464

[tiger at laptop]:~>pkg info -xo skype
linux-skype_oss_wrapper-0.1.1  audio/linux-skype_oss_wrapper
skype4-4.3.0.37,1              net-im/skype4
 	
[tiger at laptop]:~>pkg info -xo webc
webcamd-3.18.0.1               multimedia/webcamd

[tiger at laptop]:~>ls -la /dev/video0 
crw-rw----  1 webcamd  webcamd  0x9e 31 июл 09:15 /dev/video0

[tiger at laptop]:~>id
uid=1001(tiger) gid=0(wheel)
groups=0(wheel),5(operator),145(webcamd),920(vboxusers)

> Anton

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