Web cam recommendations?

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Fernando Apesteguía <
fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/23/09, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Thomas Cameron wrote:
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> > > Howdy -
> > >
> > > I travel a pretty fair amount - over 115 nights in hotels in 2008.
> > >
> > > I use Skype on Linux (both Fedora and RHEL) and I would love to be able
> > > to use the web cam feature so I can see my kids before they go to bed.
> > >
> > > Anyone got a known good web cam for this?  I've never owned a web cam
> so
> > > this is completely new territory for me.
>
> Be aware that even in the case that the webcam is supported, Skype for
> Linux is not well supported. In my case, Logitech QuickCam for
> Notebooks works perfectly with Fedora 9, but with Skype when I try to
> activate the webcam, the program aborts without any hints about the
> problem.
>
>
Skype does not support v4l2.

Maybe if you install  libv4l-0.5.8-1.fc10.i386 (it has to be the 32 bit
version)

and run (using a bash shell)

# to have a v4l interface on v4l2 devices
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /opt/skype

it will work. That is what I do with my A4tech PK-935.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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