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libv4l package

  1. Bug #260918
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 260918

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 260918] Re: needed: libv4l and associated application patches (or "gspca stopped working in 2.6.27")

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 14:48 +0000, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> The webcam more or less works in cheese in current intrepid beta, but
> not in ekiga (it says that there is no matching color space) and not in
> skype (it only shows a green picture). Should I reopen the bug in ekiga?
> In any case there is a regression in skype - even tough the program is
> closed, the driver is clearly providing wrong information to it.
>

Hi Vicenzo,

Have you tried running skype and ekiga using LD_PRELOAD to make them
use libv4l?

Thanks,

James