I was experiencing the same problem with the program 'motion', and researching the web I found this little tidbit that solved the problem for me.
"I finally managed to solve this issue by adding my user to the 'video' group... Code: sudo adduser <myuser> video" source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7986190&postcount=16 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Canonical Partner Developers, which is subscribed to skype in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984603 Title: Skype video freezes right after few first frames To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skype/+bug/984603/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-partner-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~canonical-partner-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
