Hi, Just a heads up, in case anyone else decides (against all sanity) to try using Skype, *and* get a webcam working, on 64-bit Fedora 17, you get stymied by:
Skype being only released in 32 bit Skype wanting video for Linux 1 Fedora 17 uses video for Linux 2 Web pages offering advice for Mint and Ubuntu So, yum install libv4l-(whatever).i686. In my case, today, that was: yum install libv4l-0.8.8-2.fc17.i686 Make yourself a script to launch skype with a compatibility library #!/bin/bash # # force preloading of a 32 bit video for linux 1 # compatibility library for video for linux 2 LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype Use that to start up Skype, instead of its own menu item. No doubt you could put that command line into a desktop launcher, with out the bin bash shebang. And my comments aren't needed, they're just so I don't have to remember why I use that script. And you're, now, related to Bob. Tested with: skype-4.0.0.8-fc16.i586 libv4l-0.8.8-2.fc17.i686 NB: If you simply name your launch script "skype", and put it in your file search path, I don't know whether it's safe to launch Skype in the script with a one-word "skype" command. It might go around in circles. You could change my sample launch script to use the full path to skype, instead. i.e. LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype Anyone care to try this and confirm that it works for more than just me? Prior to this, I just got a black screen in Skype, instead of my webcam (which does work, if tested in VLC). I have noticed that I needed to toggle the webcam off and on a few times, in Skype, before it came to life. So you might want to test that, too. Toggle on/off, wait a moment, do the opposite. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 17 02:43:21 UTC 2012 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists.
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