Make a Skype call without starting your video, get the person you are calling to start their video, you should now see a light blue video icon appear at the bottom of the Skype call window.Ĭlick on the video icon and change the video size from 'Normal Size' to 'Double Size' If Skype crashes when starting video during a call, do the following. (Make sure microphone volume is not muted). If your webcam has a built-in microphone, to set it to default for use with Skype, go toĬlick on the input tab and select your webcam microphone from the choices listed for input devices. Simply click 'Preview' and adjust the sliders to suit your requirements.

This will allow you to adjust the Contrast, Gamma, Auto Gain and Sharpness of your video. Menu> Preferences > Video4Linux Control Panel Type 'v4l2ucp' in the search box and then select it. Now your webcam is working you can optionally (to improve the quality of your webcam picture), install v4l2ucp(video for linux 2 universal control panel) from the Software Manager.

Press Enter and close the Terminal, start Skype and webcam works. Now to make the file executable, copy and paste the following line into Terminal. LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype This will open your editor with a blank text file, copy and paste the following lines into your blank text file. I'm using gedit as my text editor, if you use a different one just substitute gedit for the editor of your choice.Ĭopy and paste the line below into the Terminal and press Enter. Listed below is a simple and quick way to get your webcam up and running with Skype. By default the current library is V4L2, to make your webcam work with Skype if you have this problem, requires the preloading of V4L to make it compatible or V4L2 conversion. This issue is down to the video 4 linux libraries (V4L). You may have a green screen when you access your video on skype or no video at all.

Although some webcams work on Linux Mint with Cheese and other webcam apps, they do not all work out of the box with Skype.

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