Pixxo webcam on Skype

[BillybobT]

I found a relatively inexpensive web-cam at the local Fry's (Chicagoland). Even though it only referenced Win OS's on the box, I figured it was worth at shot for only 19 bucks.

It's a Pixxo Magic Eye AW-U1131 with a built-n microphone and manual focus. Some of the specs they claim are pretty hokie, but nothing really outlandish.

Here's my problem: I wanted to use this in Skype; it shows up as a Venus USB2.0 device, but when I click on the Test button, the camera goes active (red LED on camera), but I get no video on the Skype config screen.

To make sure the thing was working, I installed Cheese, started it up and the thing works like a champ there, but I wasn't sure about audio. I'm pretty sure that works too after I started messing around with my ALSA settings.

I had seen on one site where I could use the setup in Ekiga to check it out, but that turned out to be a bust to.

Can anyone tell me if the fact that it works in Cheese means that it also works with Skype?

Linux Mint 9 Isadora w/2.6.32-22-generic
Dell XPS 400 2.8GHz Pentium D 3GB

[Rubberman]

You may need to diddle wtih the video device settings in the Skype configuration pages. I did in order to get my camera to work also.

[kencamargo]

Here's my problem: I wanted to use this in Skype; it shows up as a Venus USB2.0 device, but when I click on the Test button, the camera goes active (red LED on camera), but I get no video on the Skype config screen.

To make sure the thing was working, I installed Cheese, started it up and the thing works like a champ there, but I wasn't sure about audio. I'm pretty sure that works too after I started messing around with my ALSA settings.

I had the same problem, and found a solution (at least for me) at ubuntuforums - the system won't allow me to post the url, but the id is 1306368 and the title is "[SOLVED] Webcam works on Cheese but not on Skype - Ubuntu Forums", from user fbugnon, posted Old October 31st, 2009.

I only had to do this part:

Edited my ~/.Skype/<username>/config.xml to add the Video element. Mine did not have a <Video> element, I put it under <Lib> (found it by another round of googling)

...
<Lib>
...
<Video>
<CaptureHeight>480</CaptureHeight>
<CaptureWidth>640</CaptureWidth>
<RecvPolicy>callpolicy</RecvPolicy>

</Video>
...
</Lib>
...

HTH,
Ken