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06/12/2011
Using iSight with Skype on Ubuntu
My computer is a (white) iMac, and I’m running Ubuntu 11.10. Everything works quite well. Did I say everything? Well, the integrated webcam, iSight, refused to work with Skype, though it works perfectly well out-of-the-box with GTalk, for example.
Finally I found out why on Ubuntu’s forums.
It turns out you have to run Skype in a somewhat special way. I’ve created this script to run it:
#!/bin/bash
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
The directory “/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/” is Oneiric (Ubuntu 11.10) specific. In older Ubuntu releases it used to be “/usr/lib/libv4l”.
Voilá! Skype with video calls to my Galaxy SII :D
