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I tried using Kino and Cinelerra to capture video from my Panasonic DV camcorder in my Ubuntu 8.04, but none of those softwares detected my camcorder. I tried both firewire and USB. Kino was giving me «WARNING: raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to read/write /dev/raw1394!» error. I couldn't find out how to load raw1394 kernel module, so I tried changing the permission to 660 for /dev/raw1394. That didn't help. I finally got it to work after I changed the permission to 777.

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As you might have read, Skype released a beta version with Video support for Linux. I downloaded the Ubuntu Feisty Fawn package and it installed without any problem in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. I didn't try video chatting with anybody. I just checked to see if Skype recognized the webcam and it did. The clarity looks better in the small window than AMSN, but I'll have to chat with someone and check. I'll do that soon.

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Finally!!! Skype now offers video support for Linux version of the Skype. I'm not sure about the quality. I'll download and install it when I get time sometime today or tomorrow to test. The quality may not be as good as Windows since the video drivers in Linux are not provided by the manufacturers.

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Gizmo Project has released a beta version of Gizmo 4.0 with video conference support. Video support, from what I could tell, is for Windows only. Send me the download link if I'm wrong. Here are some of the fixes and improvements according to Gizmo forum:

Fixes:

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Skype has released a beta version (3.6) of Skype software which brings you high quality video. To make use of this high quality video calls, Skype recommends the latest beta version of the software plus a webcam capable of producing high quality video output, a dual core processor and a broadband connection with atleast 380 kbps speed.

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I did a fresh install of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3 on my laptop on Saturday. It has ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics card. I had problem with the Live CD as usual. The X server didn't work. I had to use the safe graphics mode in Live CD to get it to work. I then installed Ubuntu from the Live CD. The installation went fine, but Ubuntu didn't install the proprietary driver for ATI card by default. I had to manually install and reconfigure my xserver. ATI support really sucks in Linux. Gutsy is slightly buggy, but it didn't prevent me from doing the regular work.

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