____/ Attila on Saturday 10 November 2007 08:20 : \____
> Hadron wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> ____/ Attila on Thursday 08 November 2007 16:23 : \____
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Skype for Linux 2.0 - with Video support
>>>> <snip>
>>>> Hi Roy,
>>>> Being extremely sceptical about any claim regarding skype (or shite as
>>>> the scousers say) I duely downloaded and tried out its "video
>>>> support"[sic]. 1. It did recognise my camera as a sn9c1xx camera (a
>>>> Trust 120 Spacecam v4l2 usb cam) on /dev/video. Hmmm so far so good.
>>>> 2. I click the "test" button and one of two things happens:
>>>> A. A get some sort of image that is basically green with red patterns
>>>> flashing intermittently (roughly at 1 second intervals) or
>>>> B. Clicking the button crashes Skype with the "aborting..." message.
>>>>
>>>> Both Ekiga and AMSN work fine with this webcam.
>>>> So well done Skype.
>>>> Attila
>>>
>>> It is a beta though. It's an early release.
>>
>> Doesn't work on Linux
>>
>> "It's beta".
>>
>> lol.
>>
>> (nice xface btw, try changing the sampling/conversion so there is more
>> dark regions).
>>
> I never said "Doesn't work on Linux". In fact AFAICT it works as well at it
> always did EXCEPT for the fact that it doesn't work with my sn9c102 webcam.
> For all I know it may work on all linuxes with all other webcams.
> Att
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