Just to get a taste of what driver spread we have in the community, please let us know which device driver you have, and also which graphics card driver you're using.

If you select other to either question above, please let us know which you use by commenting on this thread.

Thanks,
Andy.

This forum topic proves that Skype developpers take the video development very serious. Another piece of positive news!

Well, i have an older logitech quickcam express and a newer logitech quickcam messenger with driver gspca.

My video card is an ATI Radeon 9600, and actually i'm using fglrx driver (8.42.3)

Too bad UVC isn't that functional yet, it's probably going to do the same what USB-storage/picture bridge did on digital cameras. I'm currently using Quickcam messenger, and the driver can only use the uncompressed ~ 320x200 mode and the quality isn't that good...

Howdy !

Finally some good survey! What I'm using is:
- driver gspca ( Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX & Logitech Quickcam for notebooks Deluxe )
- Video card ( nVidia 7600GS and Intel 945 )

Are we closer to get video in Skype for Linux?

Have a nice day all.

I am very surprised (and disheartened) by only 42 responses for the camera and video drivers in use for Linux. I have used Ubuntu on my laptop for the past three releases and Fedora before that. I need to keep a Windows PC to talk (with video) to my daughter (new Mac laptop) in college. Skype is the very last application for which I need to keep Windows in my house. I would purchase any USB camera when this finally gets completed and released. If beta testers are needed-- sign me up.

Hi -- the lack of responses is likely due to us just creating this survey today

Video is due shortly, just wanted to know what to focus on for the future, and also what issues we need to make people aware of on the initial release (driver-specific issues, workarounds, etc).

Enjoy!
Andy.

i've got a logitech live! cam video im pro which has a chip from the m560x family, it is not yet supported by the m560x-driver, but it should be in a while. i used to have a logitech camera that was supported by the gspca driver, but it broke, so i got my current webcam from a friend who didn't use it anymore as his new laptop has a built-in one.
i hope the guys doing the m560x driver will add support for it soon, i already checked whether just adding the device id to the driver would work... it would detect the camera correctly, but can't extract an image from it, so i guess i'll have to wait
edit: btw, my graphics card is a geforce 6800 gt

I've been running FC 6. I using Nvidia, but I don't have a webcam yet. I've been waiting for Skype video.

I am using a pretty ancient Logitech ClickSmart 310 webcam, and I don't really know which device driver I would use.

As for a comment, I would highly recommend that Skype team to strongly consider making video calling compatible with the new ultraportable Asus EEE. With impending millions of EEE sold and the immense popularity gaining in Asia as well as in everywhere else, it really makes sense to include this market into your target audience! (You guys will be making so much contribution and having that pride in delivering video calling to millions of people!) As for business, it makes sense for you guys to expand your market to more people who have never used Skype!

For one, I will be getting an EEE as soon as I get my paycheck and counting on you guys to bring me video calling to that powerful mini-computer in the near future.

Thanks and good luck!

I am using a cheap Mustek Wcam 300A that works with gspca driver. I am running Skype on both Linux Mint Daryna (direct derivative of Gutsy) and PCLinuxOS 2007. No issues with it.

As for the new EEEPC I am looking forward to have one.

Well, I casted just one vote but I am a great user of webcams and Linux so I should need 3 more votes. Indeed I use:

- 1 Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision (uvcvideo) on a workstation 64bit AMDFedora 7 and ATI (closed) driver
- 1 Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision (uvcvideo) on a workstation 64bit Intel Dual Core Fedora 7 and NVidia (closed) driver
- 1 Logitech Notebook Pro (pwc) on a laptop Intel Single Core Fedora 7 and Intel i915 driver
- 1 PhilipsTouchcam Pro 740k on a laptop with an old pentium at 233MHz Ubunto Gutsy and Intel driver

These are the computers scattered at my home and work and I essentially use video with Ekiga, even though with a couple of persons I have to boot under WinXP and use skype video (this is essentially the only reason why I use Windows). So I am eager for a Linux version of Skype that includes video.

---Beppe---

P.S. BTW the image quality of the Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision (uvcvideo) is far superior to any other webcam I tried before.

I'm using the built it webcam of my hp pavilion dv6000 laptop (ricoh driver) and i'm so impatiently waiting for video on linux skype

I'm on a Sony Vaio SZ330/P with GeForce Go 7400 video card and a built-in webcam (Ricoh 5U870). A custom written driver exists which supports V4L2. Further descriptions are at the following site (although it seems down currently)

http://lsb.blogdns.net/ry5u870/

I'm using Ricoh built in webcam, with drivers r5u870 on HP Pavilion dv6233




unfortunetly not yet included in kernel mainstream..

I have built-it camera on Asus laptop. It's Syntek's manufactured (Syntek Semicon DC-1125). Driver is not included in kernel but here is link the project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/syntekdriver).

And graphic driver is nvidia (closed).

My webcam (D-MAX DM3588) doesn't have a Linux driver, it is very old and I'll buy a new webcam soon. Any suggestions?

My video card is an on-board VIA S3 UniChrome, using the "via" driver.

Thanks for the greatly awaited video in Skype!

Driver gspca with Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX, all is working well and out of the box on my ubuntu gutsy box.
Video driver nvidia with a 7600GT card, again no problem here, it just works great.

Webcam tested with kopete, amsn and ekiga.

Cheap cam using ov51x-jpeg driver (05a9:8519 OmniVision Technologies, Inc.)

ASUS laptop with SIS video on board, using sis driver.

Can't see this config making it through the first cut, but I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Tony

I'm not sure what webcam driver it is... but the webcam that I do use, is a Creative Labs webcam, mid-range $40 when I bought it 2years ago.

I managed to successfully run my Creative WebCam Live! camera with gspca driver. I use nvida proprietary drvier on my Fedora 7 machine.

I use the integrated webcam in my Acer 9413z laptop, the one with the Bison chipset. Last time I tried the only driver I could get it working with is the BerliOS UVC drivers.

That said it seems to be working just fine with those.

Mark

Ditto.

Go and check your system!

Skype 2.0 was just released:

http://share.skype.com/sites/garage/2007/1...revolution.html

Same webcam chip, and fglrx drivers (nvidia on another PC, but I don't have a webcam there)

Webcam: creative labs CT6840
module=ov511

Video driver mga (mga g400)
module=mga

Result: Black screen in preview box - the preview box doesn't redraw when i drag a window over it

I'm using a Cristal Eye Webcam on an Acer TM 6292 with Gentoo.

# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 064e:a101 Suyin Corp.

# eix -Ic i810
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810 (2.1.1@09/11/2007): X.Org driver for Intel cards

# eix -Ic uvc
[I] media-video/linux-uvc (0.1.0_pre126@10/28/2007): Linux driver and user-space tools for USB Video Class devices.

# lsmod |grep uvc
uvcvideo 40964 0
compat_ioctl32 5248 1 uvcvideo
videodev 28288 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 15876 2 uvcvideo,videodev
v4l2_common 18560 2 uvcvideo,videodev

other=ov511
radeon

HW:
X31 laptop with 16mb Mobility Radeon M6
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:08b1 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Notebook Pro

SW:
CentOS 4.5
Kernel 2.6.9
XOrg 6.8.2
pwc 10.0.0.12
Radeon open source driver -> only 1 XV Viewport

Problems:
a) Video does not show in case GLX extension is enabled
workaround: disable GLX in xorg.conf (comment out LoadModule "glx")
b) only shows one video stream (remote or local)
workaround: none (Xv problem..)
c) video window sometimes gets white
workaround: move video window around then the video picture appears again

other=ov51x-jpeg (05a9:4519 OmniVision Technologies, Inc.)

The camera is recognized by skype, but I get no picture. With xawtv, I get a picture for both 32 and 64 bit userspace (with 64 bit kernel).

other=finepix (04cb:012d Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd - http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpix)

My webcam: ID 0ac8:301b Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. ZC0301 WebCam (doesn't support 160x140)
Module: gspca (patched to support 160x140 for skype)

Video card: VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
Module: i810

3 Setups, 2 pretty boring ones - older Logitech Webcams work fine out of the box with Ubuntu Gutsy and Feisty ( with newest kernel ).

More interesting is my HP Pavilion dv6000 with a built in web cam. This model comes with either a ricoh or Microdia webcam - mine has the Microdia.

I'm using the uvcvideo driver, and it APPEARED to not work - but there seems to be some issue with usb going to sleep so I thought I would post in case anyone else is knocking their head off a brick wall like I was.

If you're finding that the blue light goes on, showing that the camera is active, but there is no picture, disconnect the call, and restart the USB module using:

sudo modprobe -r uvcvideo && sudo modprobe uvcvideo

This is potentially a motherboard issue from what I've read, which would blow, because I don't want to install Windows just to update my bios!!

Keith

Asus notebook with built in webcam

Webcam manufacturer: Syntek Semicon.
driver: stk11xx (http://syntekdriver.sourceforge.net)

Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)
driver: intel

Could someone with an ov5xx camera, please do an attempt at a video test in Options dialog, then run the v4l-info utility from xawtv and give me a text file with the output please?

This would be most useful.

Thanks,
Andy.

Hello,

I started Skype, and attempted a video test; then close Option dialog (in order to let the device free) and run vl4-info from konsole. Ouput follows:



Hope this is useful.

Pedro.

pedro.ap
Have you got a black screen problem during the skype test?

nitz84,

yes, you are right, sorry if I wasn't clear. I assumed that it was a fact that this class of drivers are not working at all with Skype by now.

I have a Creative Webcam III (ov511).The v4l-info output is attached.

"Olidata" ov519 cam with the ov51x-jpeg Module. While wxcam is working, Skype detects the cam but I encounter the "black screen" like many others reported in the forum.
I tried many of the tips given (see below) but the problem remains. :-(

v4l-info
### video4linux device info [/dev/video0] ###
general info
VIDIOCGCAP
name : "OV519 USB Camera"
type : 0x201 [CAPTURE,SUBCAPTURE]
channels : 1
audios : 0
maxwidth : 640
maxheight : 480
minwidth : 64
minheight : 48

channels
VIDIOCGCHAN(0)
channel : 0
name : "Camera"
tuners : 0
flags : 0x0 []
type : CAMERA
norm : 0

tuner
ioctl VIDIOCGTUNER: Invalid argument

audio
ioctl VIDIOCGAUDIO: Invalid argument

picture
VIDIOCGPICT
brightness : 32768
hue : 40960
colour : 33792
contrast : 23552
whiteness : 26880
depth : 12
palette : YUV420

buffer
VIDIOCGFBUF
base : (nil)
height : 0
width : 0
depth : 0
bytesperline : 0

window
VIDIOCGWIN
x : 0
y : 0
width : 640
height : 480
chromakey : 0
flags : 30

v4l-conf
v4l-conf: using X11 display :1.0
WARNING: Your X-Server has no DGA support.
mode: 1680x1050, depth=24, bpp=32, bpl=6720, base=unknown
/dev/video0 [v4l2]: ioctl VIDIOC_QUERYCAP: Invalid argument
/dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support

xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
Adaptor #0: "Xgl Generic Texture Video"
number of ports: 32
port base: 48
operations supported: PutImage
supported visuals:
depth 24, visualID 0x2c
depth 24, visualID 0x2d
depth 32, visualID 0x2e
depth 32, visualID 0x2f
no port attributes defined
maximum XvImage size: 2048 x 2048
Number of image formats: 3
id: 0x32595559 (YUY2)
guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
bits per pixel: 16
number of planes: 1
type: YUV (packed)
id: 0x32315659 (YV12)
guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
bits per pixel: 12
number of planes: 3
type: YUV (planar)
id: 0x0
guid: 03000000-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
bits per pixel: 32
number of planes: 1
type: RGB (packed)
depth: 24
red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff

I am using the Logitech Communicate STX Plus cam, gspca driver, with the open-source radeon driver on Gutsy.

I use quickcam 0.6.6 driver which is different from (however related to) quickcam_messenger driver. My cam (ID 046d:0870) does not work with the quickcam_messenger driver. It is an old model of Logitech Quickcam Express. The driver works well with other applications which uses v4l1 interface. I hope that this driver will be also supported by skype.

For videocard I use the nvidia binary (closed) driver, but I think that is common.

Asus notebook with built in webcam

Webcam manufacturer: Syntek Semicon.
driver: stk11xx (http://syntekdriver.sourceforge.net)

Nvidia card with closed drivers

by the way, no video refresh in test window, and cpu 100% for skype process after pressing test button

sorry, the files I attached were wrong!!!!

Here is the right one.

There is another problem here with Xgl unfortunately, as it isn't supporting the YUV420P (I420) overlay colour/pixel format either. So even if the camera captures successfully (which looks okay on those settings), then you still won't see anything.

Does the other person see you with these settings?

Andy.

I'm not using xgl...

Sorry, I was referring to SebTV's post above.

Andy.

Hi, glad to be testing the new Skype

How do I find out which driver I am using?

I have a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000, with embedded mic and such, on a Ati Mobility 9600 gfx card. The cam works with no need of configuration on Ekiga Softphone, but under Skype, I can only use the mic (Test cam results in blank screen).

So, how do i find out so i can vote?

Cheers