[Asus-ul30] HowTo: Running Skype Video without the flipped webcam image (UL30A) Ubuntu 9.10 (x64)
On an ASUS UL30A:
1. sudo apt-get install v4l2ucp (I don't know if it's really necessary but I did it first while looking around for fixes)
2. Adding the libv4l-PPA, update package lists and install libv4l-0
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libv4l
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libv4l-0
(Thanks to: http://radu.cotescu.com/2009/11/05/flipped-images-ubuntu-webcam/)
3. Starting Skype with a shell-script e.g. called skype.sh containing:
#!/bin/bash
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype
(Open a text editor, copy&paste the text above, save the file as "skype.sh" and give it executing rights (by sudo chmod +x skype.sh)
do you have a solution for flipped camera on gmail's video chat?
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@ Paulo, I can report that it works perfectly with chrome if you replace "skype" with "google-chrome" in the above shell script:
ReplyDeleteLD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so google-chrome
(I am on a 32-bit PAE install, so I don't have a "lib32" directory)
I then saved the script somewhere (e.g., /usr/local/bin/chrome-with-video.sh)
and replaced the GNOME launcher's command (right click > properties) with:
/usr/local/bin/chrome-with-video.sh %U
Happy right-side-up video chatting!
I skipped step #1 and this solution worked for me. Ubuntu 11.04
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