Logitech Quickcam Chat with Skype 2.1 in Ubuntu Linux

As you may be aware of, Skype released their 2nd beta of Skype 2.1 for Linux. I have Logitech Quickcam Chat I use with my desktop and it didn’t work with official Skype before. I was using the one from Medibuntu repository and it worked well. Medibuntu removed Skype from their list.

Before you install the new beta of Skype, if you have already installed Skype through Medibuntu, you may have to uninstall Skype and Skype-common before you install the new Skype. You’ll get an error otherwise. Once installed, the video didn’t work. I could then get the video work by loading Skype using the following command I issued in a terminal.

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

Make sure you have libv4l-0 installed. If not, install it before you try the above command. I now have to put this command as a file and run it as an executable to run Skype. It’s a pain, but it works atleast. I hope Skype team will fix this before they release the final version.

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