Bug#697854: general: Fail to display video

[Ralph Ronnquist <ralph.ronnquist@gmail.com>]

I'm afraid I have tried this; I have libv4l-0 installed, and tried the 
LD_PRELOAD variants as well. No luck :-(

The point is that it does work fine when displaying on another host via 
ssh with X11 forwarding (though skype needs LD_PRELOAD). (Possibly plain 
remote X11 as well, but I don't have that set up) This leads me to 
believe there's something with the X server subsystem.

In any case I need help to dig into it.

Ralph.

On 11/01/13 01:43, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 00:44 +1100, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
> > Package: general
> > Severity: important
> >
> > I just installed a fresh Debian 6.0, and got the problem that video doesn't
> > show, specifically in skype (neither preview nor call) and cheese (preview).
> >
> > The webcam appears to work fine, since it shows up at the remote end on skype
> > call (but I see nothing here), and cheese captures pictures nicely.
> >
> > Also, when I ssh from another host with ForwardX11, then skype (both preview
> > and call) and cheese preview show video on that host.
> >
> > Thus, I'm guessing on something with X but don't know where or what.
> >
> > The host is a Sony Vaio Z with:
> > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sandy Bridge Integrated
> > Graphics Controller (rev 09)
>
> Please install libv4l-0 and copy this launcher
> # aptitude install libv4l-0
> # cp skype.desktop /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop
>
> This should fix your issue and probably all those googling for
> skype+debian+webcam
>
> Cheers,