several users have confirmed this as also affecting apple iSight cameras. My own iSight suffers this issue.
see below for the same answers that have already been presented to use v4l2convert.so: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1745517 ** Summary changed: - logitech camera doesn't work after upgrade + webcams show as black screen in skype -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/754162 Title: webcams show as black screen in skype To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skype/+bug/754162/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
