Using Logitech Quickcam on Skype on Intrepid

By azeey Monday March 23, 2009

This is a quick tip on making video from the Logitech Quickcam work on skype. I haven’t thoroughly tested this but its working for me. You may potentially need to install some more packages. I tested this on my webcam with usb info 046d:08da Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Messanger.

  1. Install the v4l library:
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    sudo apt-get install libv4l-0
  2. The workaround is to call skype with the proper compatibility library preloaded.
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    LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
  3. Instead of calling skype as in step 2 all the time, we write a wrapper script. First we move /usr/bin/skype to /usr/bin/skype.real the put the following script in /usr/bin/skype
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    #!/bin/bash
    LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype.real

    Make sure you enable execution for the script we just wrote

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    sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/skype


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