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Skype issues on ubuntu

Skype issues on ubuntu

Theres a number of issues one might experience with skype on ubuntu. Including:

1. Webcam: green static from your webcam
2. Not able to see incoming (the other partys) video
3. Skype high cpu usage
4. No sound for incoming call. The popup is working, but no sound.

The fixes are:

1. You need to use v4l input (Video for linux), not v4l2. Open $ gstreamer-properties->Video tab, change input to v4l.
2. If you see just the window rectangle and no video inside, this might be related to cairo-dock. Try the following $ export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 && skype check if that works.
3. Looks like this is related to pulse and the suggestion is to remove pulse, but thats not for me)
4. Increase the Alert volume in sound preferences. Open System->Preferences->Sound

skype.desktop actually uses skype-wrapper to launch skype. The latter is a simle script, so it might be a good idea to edit it rather then running the commands above manually.
Ive added
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 to the skype-wrapper above LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype "$@" line.

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