Skype not getting video from webcam
Alexander Leidinger
Alexander at Leidinger.net
Mon Oct 4 10:48:51 UTC 2010
Quoting Jashank Jeremy <jashank.jeremy at optusnet.com.au> (from Mon, 4
Oct 2010 19:01:53 +1100):
> Hi,
>
> I've just got a Logitech Webcam Pro 9000, and, after installing
> webcamd and pwcview, works very well. However, when I try to use it in
> Skype, it doesn't work.
>
> When I ktrace(1) Skype, and bodge UVC in webcamd to produce debugging
> data, I get the following output.
>
> This is the debugging data from UVC:
>
> uvcvideo: uvc_v4l2_open
> uvcvideo: uvc_v4l2_ioctl(VIDIOCGCAP)
> uvcvideo: Unknown ioctl 0x40047601
> This is the relevant portion of the ktrace(1) output from Skype
> (dumped using ports/devel/linux_kdump):
> ...
> 86117 skype CALL linux_open(0x2dc9e0b8,0x802,0)
> 86117 skype NAMI "/compat/linux/dev/video0"
> 86117 skype NAMI "/dev/video0"
> 86117 skype RET linux_open 11/0xb
> 86117 skype CALL linux_ioctl(0xb,0x80685600 ,0x2dc9e014)
> 86117 skype RET linux_ioctl -1 errno 22 Invalid argument
> I'm none the wiser as to what's going on here, especially the
> ioctl(2)'s not matching between Skype and webcamd. Could someone
> enlighten me?
Please specify your FreeBSD version. If 8.1-RELEASE (or older): this
will not work, you need to update to a recent -stable.
If this is on -stable or -current, please provide the output of "ident
/sys/compat/linux/linux_ioctl.c".
Bye,
Alexander.
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