Anybody can use webcam in skype in 8.1?

[Yuri]

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-
>    

Thanks for this info.

I noticed that there is no linux port for libv4l from which
/usr/local/lib/libv4l2.so.0 comes. I am not sure now what
skype is doing without it's Linux version, why it doesn't
complain.

Yuri