{"id":543,"date":"2008-05-11T09:54:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T08:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streppone.it\/cosimo\/blog\/2008\/05\/olpc-getting-skype-to-work-with-video\/"},"modified":"2008-05-11T09:54:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T08:54:02","slug":"olpc-getting-skype-to-work-with-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streppone.it\/cosimo\/blog\/2008\/05\/olpc-getting-skype-to-work-with-video\/","title":{"rendered":"OLPC: Getting Skype to work with video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent Skype version usable is 2.0.0.68 from the Fedora repository.<br \/>\nFollow the instructions at: <a href=\"http:\/\/olpcnews.com\/forum\/index.php?topic=471\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the OLPC news forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that doesn&#39;t work is the video out, that is, when you want to send your webcam video signal out to others with the video call.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m working on this by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Modifying the gstfakevideo sources and trying to understand why some ioctls fail\n<\/li>\n<li>Trying to upgrade the linux-uvc module on the XO, by grabbing the kernel sources and compiling linux-uvc.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will let you know&#8230; :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent Skype version usable is 2.0.0.68 from the Fedora repository. 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