On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 08:16 +0100, Gavin Carr wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:02:00PM +0100, Andrew Allen wrote:
Skype detected a camera OK but it doesn't seem to work - and when I click the 'test' button it just closes skype down! Any ideas please?
Is it a bug with Skype or the Video4Linux driver?
That's a good question - trouble is I don't know how to test that the camera is working with the Video4Linux driver. Is there a command-line way of doing this?
I use 'luvcview', available from rpmforge.
Thanks, I installed luvcview and tested the webcam - it works a treat! So now I know that the webcam works with the Video4Linux driver I'd like to use skype with video - I'm using the beta version of skype for CentOS: skype.i586 2.0.0.13-centos and the video doesn't seem to work - when I try to test the video it crashes. When I do yum list skype, it shows a newer version, skype.i586 2.0.0.72-fc5, in the skype repo which maybe has video working (?), but when I try to yum update to this, I get the error message 'Missing Dependency: qt4-x11 >= 4.2 is needed by package skype' I've got qt4 installed of course, for skype to work, so why is it showing qt4-x11 as missing? Any help appreciated so that I don't have to fall back on Windoze in order to use all the features of the webcam!
Andy