webcam

[Doug Penner]

Unless Skype is being really picky about the driver (which it shouldn't 
be, Linux uses only a small handful of interfaces), it sounds like an 
issue with Skype. It could be anything from a bug to a black/white list 
entry.

Let us know if you are able to find out anything about it.


~Doug



On Sun, 11 May 2014, Raymond House wrote:

> Hi Doug, yes it works with cheese and google hangout. Thanks for clearing that up for me, I didn't know if a different driver was required for each system.
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> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Doug Penner <darwinsurvivor at gmail.com> wrote:
>       Does the webcam work in the native video applications (such as cheese)? If so, it probably isn't a driver issue. Since skype is proprietary, unless
>       someone has had a similar issue in the past and been able to resolve it, you'll probably have better luck contacting Skype. If you do, make sure to tell
>       them that the webcam works with other software (so they don't give you the run-around).
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>
>       ~Doug
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>       On Sat, 10 May 2014, Raymond House wrote:
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>             Hi, my webcam uses SPCA561 driver and can't get it to work with skype, I see on google that I could download this driver, but it's all for ms,
>             could this work for
>             ubuntu `14.04 ? I'm assuming that the driver maybe defective and wonder if I download it, it could fix the problem ? I don't know much about
>             this, maybe it wont ?
>             Thanks
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