Jul 24
How To : Webcam Work with Google Plus or Talk
Computer, Linux No Comments »If your webcam doesn’t work (it’s not detected) with the new Google Plus Hangouts or with Google Talk Video, here’s a possible way to get it working.
Before proceeding, make sure Google Talk plugin is installed.
Both Google Plus Hangouts and Google Chat Video use the Google Talk Plugin for which we’ll apply a ‘fix’ similar to an old Skype work-around (preloading v4l1compat.so):
Ubuntu 32bit:
sudo apt-get install libv4l-0 sudo mv /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin.real echo '#!/bin/sh' | sudo tee /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin echo "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin.real"...