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Re: [News] Skype Brings Video to GNU/Linux Client!

____/ 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.

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