You have been subscribed to a public bug: My webcam was working well in previous releases of Ubuntu. It also worked well after installation of 12.04 and I could use it with skype for video chats, but It doesn't work after I installed VLC. When I open skype options to test the camera, the camera is recognized but when I click "test" all I get is a blank screen. I tried uninstalling vlc from my system but the problem persists.
when I tried the following: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype I got: libv4l2: error setting pixformat: Device or resource busy ** Affects: skype (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: bot-comment -- webcam camera not working after installing vlc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1007825 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Canonical Partner Developers, which is subscribed to skype in Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-partner-dev Post to : canonical-partner-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~canonical-partner-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp