Anybody can use webcam in skype in 8.1?

Yuri yuri at rawbw.com
Mon Jul 19 04:06:45 UTC 2010


On 07/18/2010 07:27, Modulok wrote:
> I had a similar problem under linux the other day, if that helps. I
> ended up setting the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to modify how
> skype gets linked at runtime. In bash:
>
> LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
> skype
>
> Again that's on linux, so it's probably not relevant, or even if it
> is, the shared object file will be in a different location.
>
> Sorry I'm not of much help. Maybe someone else can do better.
> -Moduok-
>
>    

I noticed that there is even no linux port of libv4l on FreeBSD.
Maybe this is the issue with skype?

Yuri


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