I am having this very same problem but with another webcam using a completely different driver.
I recently bought a webcam from walmart called Retail Plus+ 5 megapixel, it uses the sn9c20x driver and has the OV7670 sensor When I use skype, I have three microphones, one built into this webcam, one built into my laptop, another that I plug into the front of my laptop. If I make a phone call with Skype, I can use any of the three microphones (either the built in one on the webcam, the built in one on the laptop or the one I plug into the front of the laptop) However, when I make a video call the same thing happens to me, except I did figure out how to get one of the three microphones working. For some reason once the video from my webcam kicks in, Skype forgets about my laptops internal microphone and the microphone -in jack. The only one that works for me is when I configure the webcam's internal microphone. This isn't ideal as the sound is better quality on my headset but for what ever reason skype kicks out the other mic inputs except for the one on my Retail Plus+ 5 megapixel webcam (no , it's not the microdia one, I gave up on my internal Microdia camera a while ago, I may try the new driver for it later from the GIT). So, I am getting excellent quality video using this webcam (works great in low-lighting), however there is the sound glitch, that I have a workaround for using this particular model. I am not sure what the problem is, if it's Skype it'self or something else. I did also have to adjust a skype setting. DO NOT let skype adjust your audio volume levels, you can adjust them yourself using the OS sound widgets. You have to tell skype not to do this by going into options->audio settings (look for a checkbox) Operating system: Ubuntu 9.10 (up to date as of Jan 22, 2010) Webcam: Retail Plus+ sn9c20x: OV7670 sensor Skype version: 2 (something, can't remember, I got it recently) Hope this helps. I hope to try out the latest microdia drivers for my internal webcam soon, I got lazy and just bought this one from Walmart (Retail Plus+ ) and it seems to work really well for only $24,95 Canadian dollars) It would be nice to get the microphone issue figured out though, it seems to be a Skype glitch. Thanks On 21 jan, 08:22, mrpurple <[email protected]> wrote: > ok rereading i think to have not well explained my problem. i retry > now > i have a webcam 0c45:624f Microdia PC Camera (SN9C201 + OV9650) , > Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit, uname -r 2.6.31-18-generic. > Under ekiga the image from webcam is really good. In canforama i'm > getting an error windows "Unable to capture image". > Under skype the problem is that if audio is working the webcam give a > green square. If the webcam works there is an audio problem. > Until some months ago i was need follow the procedure to build the > driver and preload the 32 bit vl4 as shown in microdia group. > Since the driver is added in the newest kernel the webcam was working > well until some weeks ago. Under skype doesn' want to start. > Do i have to pre - load something to run without problem ? .maybe now > the vl4 for 64 bit ? > thank's > > On Jan 20, 2:57 am, mrpurple <[email protected]> wrote:> Since the lastest > kernel i'm getting problem on skype when i need to > > activate the webcam. sometime restarting skyp or the computer when i > > check in option the webcam is working, but in those case there is no > > sound. > > I think is maybe a conflict problem with audio ? now what i can do ? > > > Thank you for any help -- Lets make microdia webcams plug'n play, (currently plug'n pray) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Visit us online https://groups.google.com/group/microdia
