[FreeBSD 8/9] USB webcamd and video4bsd: Call for testing

Oliver Brandmueller ob at e-Gitt.NET
Tue Jan 26 16:10:42 UTC 2010


Hi,

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:00:40PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > Interestingly skype does not seem to detect the webcam even though it
> > claims to support v4l
> 
> Skype doesn't work for me either, it lists /dev/video0 but nothing 
> happens when I click test and it doesn't work in a video call (the 
> recipient sees nothing).

For me Skype doesn't even detect /dev/video0 - pwcview works fine though 
(at least the first time I use it, afterwards I have to restart webcamd 
to use it a second time).

- Oliver

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