Skype and video

I have a webcam from Logitech and I have tried to open a video connection with Skype on Suse 11.1. But I hadn’t have a video stream. Some investigations later I have found a solution on Ubuntu wiki:

lsusb
ID 046d:08d9 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam IM/Connect

I have installed the packages

zypper install libv4l1-0 libv4l2-0 libv4lconvert0

and have opened Skype with

env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

Now I have a video stream and I can see my mother-in-law 🙂

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