webcam works on one of two Lucid systems

[Adam Funk]

On 2010-07-21, NoOp wrote:

> On 07/21/2010 02:11 PM, Adam Funk wrote:

>> I think the problem is not the webcam input but the inability of some
>> programs (cheese, skype, guvcview) to display it on my system.
>
> But if it shows in mplayer then it must be a configuration setting
> somewhere. Are you using gnome-player to display or the cli? Does it
> display in gnome-player using File|TV|Open Analog TV?

I just tested it in gnome-mplayer and it works fine, *but* if I
comment out the line "vo=x11" in ~/.mplayer/config and run
gnome-mplayer, I just get the blue-filled window.