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Fixes for Skype Video, Webcam on Fedora

Submitted by dwayne on 4. February 2009 - 12:11

I'm sure everyone has written about this... Might as well help to ensure that people can quickly find a solution.

env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

Place that in your launch icon for Skype.  Or drop the 'env' and run it from the command line.  You should drop into Skype's option dialog->Video and test.  Hopefully you now have shiny video in Skype

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skype video Fedora 11

Submitted by toni on 29. January 2010 - 12:34.

Hallo, dwayne, I see you already got somebody's skype video running, but I think that was for fedora 10. I did copy as you said that line in the skype icon via right click properties, but nothing changed, my video still does not work. Maybe you have a different order for fedora 11 to copy into my skype icon? I must say that I know little about computers and linux...
Thank you anyway!
Toni

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Place in launch icon

Submitted by johnsonm8741 on 17. January 2010 - 1:00.

I really appreciate this info... however how do I place this in the launch icon?
Thanks!

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Re: Place in launch icon

Submitted by dwayne on 26. January 2010 - 23:12.

Right click properties?

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Skype hanging with usb camera with fedora 10

Submitted by Anonymous on 22. May 2009 - 23:01.

Thanks Dwayne much appreciated...3hours surfing to get a solution and here it was all along.

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