webcam

[Raymond House]

Well I tried all of the fixes suggested in the skype community and those in
the linux video trouble forum with no results.It was suggested that I get
GTK uvc video viewer and the camera works fine there, so, the hek with
skype, I will get those I want to contact on google hangout. Thanks to all
for your suggestions.


On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Doug Penner <darwinsurvivor at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>>       ~Doug
>>
>>       On Sat, 10 May 2014, Raymond House wrote:
>>
>>             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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