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You can browse for any image on your PC and have it for all your video calls. You can either have no background or select a blur effect or even select any wallpaper or image as your background. Here you will see the option to choose background effect. Under the settings option, select Audio and Video settings. In case you are already using Skype, then click on the three horizontal dots next to your name on the top left corner. Under the video settings, you will see option to choose background effect or wallpaper. After the login screen, you can see option to test your audio and video. To get Skype to work in Ubuntu 13.If you are installing Skype for the first time, you can see the option to set custom background when you set up Skype. Get Skype to work In Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail (with proprietary Nvidia graphis drivers)ġ. So here's a work-around you can use to get it to work until this is fixed in Ubuntu / Skype. Some Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail users are having issues with Skype not starting when using the proprietary Nvidia graphics drivers (it crashes / segfaults). LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l2convert.so /usr/bin/skype LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so /usr/bin/skype (Please note that this is more of a workaround than anything else, if the person you have called stops their video before you, then Skype will crash)Īs an alternative if the above fix does not work try using the lines below instead. Make a Skype call without starting your video, get the person you are calling to start their video, you should now see a light blue video icon appear at the bottom of the Skype call window.Ĭlick on the video icon and change the video size from "Normal Size" to "Double Size" If Skype crashes when starting video during a call, do the following. (Make sure microphone volume is not muted). If your webcam has a built-in microphone, to set it to default for use with Skype, go toĬlick on the input tab and select your webcam microphone from the choices listed for input devices. Press Enter and close the Terminal, start Skype and webcam works. Now to make the file executable, copy and paste the following line into Terminal. LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype This will open your editor with a blank text file, copy and paste the following lines into your blank text file. Listed below is a simple and quick way to get your webcam up and running with Skype.