I have a rather old Logitech webcam which I have been testing on Ubuntu 18.04. The camera gets mounted automatically on /dev/video0 and I can use it via VLC ("open capture device" then specifying /dev/video0 as device). However, no other program is able to detect or use it. I have tried web browsers (Chromium), Skype and lightweight apps like Cheese and Streamer. Any ideas how to make it work generally?
Results of lsmod | grep video:
videodev 184320 3 gspca_main,v4l2_common,gspca_spca561
media 40960 1 videodev
video 45056 0
Best Answer
Some programs like Skype use the older Framework v4l instead of the newer v4l2. This is not supported by every module out of the box.
This way, the older framework is forced to use for skype. I'm not good in explaining in english. Sorry.