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  How to set up Skype and webcam on Linux Mint 13 x64

The problem #1: Skype does not detects your webcam - the webcam picture is not shown in the Skype setings windows, though other applications (v4l2ucp, guvcview etc,) are able to show picture from your webcam

The problem #2: Your webcam's color/brightness settings look very disgusting and you need to do something about that

1. Create a script skype as follows:

#!/bin/bash
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
/usr/bin/skype-bin

2. Rename the /usr/bin/skype to /usr/bin/skype-bin, then copy the script from bullet 1 in /usr/bin

3. Set up the camera using v4l2ucp, then save the settings to a file v4l2_settings:

v4l2ctrl -s ~/v4l2_settings

4. Copy the file with the camera settings v4l2_settings to folder /usr/local/etc

5. Create a script /usr/local/etc/v4l2_fix as follows:

#!/bin/bash
v4l2ctrl -l /usr/local/etc/v4l2_settings

6. Put this script in startup. To do this in /etc/rc.local add the following line:

/usr/local/etc/v4l2_fix

7. reboot

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10 months ago	Sammyboy	vincentv - thank you for English translation!

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