{"id":689,"date":"2008-01-05T22:52:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T03:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/05\/skype-video-and-a-logitech-webcam"},"modified":"2008-01-05T22:52:18","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T03:52:18","slug":"skype-video-and-a-logitech-webcam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/05\/skype-video-and-a-logitech-webcam","title":{"rendered":"Skype Video, and a Logitech webcam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was hardware shopping yesterday, and couldn&#8217;t resist getting myself a webcam, now that Skype 2.0 on Linux supports it (okay, its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\/download\/skype\/linux\/beta\/\">beta<\/a>, but it works). Picked up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.logitech.com\/index.cfm\/webcam_communications\/webcams\/devices\/254&amp;cl=au,en\">Logitech QuickCam Family<\/a> for RM65. There was a more expensive version (RM10 more) that was &#8220;Skype certified&#8221;, but I figured I could save the cash, seeing that there is no way Logitech supports Linux officially anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Did it work with Linux? Most certainly, on Fedora 8, it <i>just worked<\/i>. Of course, you need the <a href=\"http:\/\/rpm.livna.org\/rlowiki\/\">livna<\/a> repository. Just install <tt>gspca<\/tt> (it&#8217;ll pull in some kernel modules too), and then run <tt>modprobe gspca<\/tt>, and voila! you have a working webcam. Tried it with Ekiga, it was detected. Tried it with Skype, and even had a chat, with a user on Windows, and it worked. Glad to be webcam enabled.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/fedora\" rel=\"tag\">fedora<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/logitech\" rel=\"tag\">logitech<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/quickcam%20family\" rel=\"tag\">quickcam family<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/linux\" rel=\"tag\">linux<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/skype\" rel=\"tag\">skype<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/video\" rel=\"tag\">video<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ekiga\" rel=\"tag\">ekiga<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/gspca\" rel=\"tag\">gspca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was hardware shopping yesterday, and couldn&#8217;t resist getting myself a webcam, now that Skype 2.0 on Linux supports it (okay, its beta, but it works). Picked up a Logitech QuickCam Family for RM65. There was a more expensive version (RM10 more) that was &#8220;Skype certified&#8221;, but I figured I could save the cash, seeing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-b7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}