Guest rmklipp Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 While trying to get a Logitech Quickcam to work in XawTV, I ended up with a window that XawTV opens up that I cannot close. I've tried using the "close" options in: XawTV window >Advanced>Special window settings & Special application settings options, and had no luck closing the window. Could someone please "bail me out"? The end goal here is to someday get video to work in Skype Thanks for any help klipp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatman9 Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 You mean that even after rebooting the unwanted window still appears? Which desktop environment are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rmklipp Posted December 17, 2010 Report Share Posted December 17, 2010 Yes, that's true! Seems to be related to XawTV which doesn't work. I finally got rid of it by killing the kdeinit4 process and then rebooting. However re-running XawTV re-creates the problem! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatman9 Posted December 17, 2010 Report Share Posted December 17, 2010 I have not used XawTV. If your end goal is merely to use your webcam with Skype then maybe Skype can locate your webcam at /dev/video0 Suggest you confirm that your webcam is installed as a video device: ls -ltr /dev/ | grep video To test your webcam try: mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0 or mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=900:height=720:device=/dev/video0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rmklipp Posted December 17, 2010 Report Share Posted December 17, 2010 Thanks for the response & tips boatman9. The camera is recognized as it works with both cheese & ekiga, I never realized it could be recognized with mplayer, thanks for that info. klipp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted December 17, 2010 Report Share Posted December 17, 2010 I can't help you with the window not closing, but Ian resolved my problem of getting the video working in skype. Check here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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