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I know in Firefox [Chrome sometimes works]on my system some web sites are a bear to try to change flash settings from them, I usually go here to change my mic' and camera privacy settings.

Is it working for you? I know that when I installed Mint 13, I was given the option to take my picture and the webcam kicked on appearing to work. But really I don't know if it is a driver problem or as you say, it could be a website problem. Normally this website is run under IE on Windows. So for the Linux side, I'm trying to run some tests for for the future. When I right-click for settings, it's grayed out - though global settings isn't Tested and works with motion.

Runs on the model B without a powered hub. Caution: Pi may hang at least not accessible remotely when using the UVC video kernel module. Without external power connecting camera directly in RPi RPi works intermittently. It works, say, 10 times and then refuses to work. Then begins to work again. I tried "magic incantation" and it did not help. Does not appear to require a powered hub. Verified with fswebcam.

Higher resolutions and framerates still get corrupt. Has issues capturing images at higher than default resolutions using motion - Arch and Debian. Tried various apps fswebcam - none work. Palette not compatible problem. Can be powered directly by the Raspberry Pi and works fine also with a wifi dongle attached to the other USB port. Sample command: fswebcam -S 5 -r x tmp.

I haven't seen the problem with the first frames for pictures, but video needs some time for adjusting. But YMMV. Tested with power direct from the Raspberry Pi. Tried with a powered USB hub. Microsoft LifeCam VX Octopi Raspbian tweaked It works after a couple of tests, I installed fswebcam on my raspberry pi 2 and now it takes x pixel photos. Tried motion and fswebcam, both running smoothly. Horizontal lines problem [2]. Stability issues [3].

Has manual infra-red leds, but turned on through software in Windows, so doesn't work on Pi, but normal capture no problems. Works with guvcview , but not with luvcview.

Snapshots only with: fswebcam -r x image. Had no problems. Tested using motion. Dec'16 Tested using fswebcam. You can check if it's loaded with:. If the webcam does work in Cheese but not in Skype , that's because this webcam can only output JPEG compressed frames which Skype cannot handle. To fix this, the proposed solution of the other answers is already almost correct. In Ubuntu This can be done in a Terminal with:.