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Webcam: Microsoft LifeCam HD-3000

Post by ZeonOtaku » Tue Sep 04, 2012 12:49 pm

I’ve been doing research, and there’s some driver called «uvcvideo». In addition to checking Mint Linux which says that the HD-3000 works, I’ve checked this website: http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/ and it’s listed that the MSLC HD-3000 is supported by that driver. I’ve also installed GIT and followed the instructions:

sudo git clone git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git cd media_build sudo ./build sudo make install 

Checking if the needed tools for Linux Mint 10 Julia are available ERROR: please install "lsdiff", otherwise, build won't work. ERROR: please install "Proc::ProcessTable", otherwise, build won't work. I don't know distro Linux Mint 10 Julia. So, I can't provide you a hint with the package names. Be welcome to contribute with a patch for media-build, by submitting a distro-specific hint to linux-media@vger.kernel.org Build can't procceed as 2 dependencies are missing at ./build line 265.

I proceed to sudo make install

But at this point, I really don’t know what to do. Never made a driver before (I guess that’s what this process is doing) — and if so, what’s next?

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Thread: Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000 and GNU/Linux and SKYPE, no green

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Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000 and GNU/Linux and SKYPE, no green

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Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000 and GNU/Linux

Posted by Locks Free on 15/03/2010

Here are some tips I have collected while trying to make my Microsoft LifeCam Vx3000 work under the latest Ubuntu. I have a 64 bits system and my aim was to make my camera work with Skype. The hardest part was to find the correct gspca module sources that worked with the latest kernels.
1. Check whether the web-cam is recognized at all

So first, I had to check if the camera was seen at all or not.
~$ lsusb
+ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 014: ID 045e:00f5 Microsoft Corp. LifeCam VX-3000.
One of the line returned by lsusb clearly indicates that my web-cam is recognized. If your web-cam does not appear, try to unload and reload ehci_hcd:
~$ sudo modprobe -r ehci_hcd
~$ sudo modprobe ehci_hcd
And then retry lsusb.
2. Make sure v4l1compat is loaded

Check whether the v4l1compat module is loaded or not by typing the following:
~$ sudo lsmod | grep v4l1_compat
If it not installed, you need to install it. If you have a 32 bits system, you need to install libv4l-0; if you have a 64 bits system like me, you need to install both libv4l-0 and lib32v4l-0:
~$ sudo apt-get install libv4l-0 lib32v4l-0
3. Install cheese

To do this first part, you will need to check progress using cheese:
~$ sudo apt-get install cheese
Startup cheese, click on Video and check whether you can see an image or just white noise. If you do see an image, you can jump to step 4. If like me you could not see anything, follow on..
4. Install GSPCA

Make sure your linux kernel sources are installed and accessible from /usr/src/linux.
Now, download and install the latest gspca module version:

* Go to this page: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~hgoede/gspca/ (used to be http://linuxtv.org/hg/~jfrancois/gspca/ but got merged back in)
* Click on the bz2 link on the left side and save it under /tmp
* Open a terminal and type the following (the compilation itself can take several minutes):
~$ cd /tmp
~$ tar xfvj gspca-.bz2
~$ cd gspca-
~$ make
~$ sudo make install && reboot

Now, try to run cheese once again and see if this work. If it does not, first check that the gspca module is loaded. If not load it.
~$ sudo lsmod | grep gspca
5. Make Skype work

If Skype still does not work, you need to help it to get there.

You need to force Skype to use the v4l1 compatibility layer, it is not yet compatible with v4l2 apparently. So you have to set the LC_PRELOAD environment variable to /usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so if you are on a 32 bits system or /usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so if you are on a 64 bits system. To just try it, open a terminal and type:
~$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype
Now, you should it be able to see your web-cam image in the Skype video options. If not� well then good luck continuing the search !
Finally, I made that change permanent (at least, until a future Skype upgrade):
~$ sudo mv /usr/bin/skype /usr/bin/skype_real
~$ sudo echo LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype_real > /usr/bin/skype
~$ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/skype
You could also just create an alias in your home for this. Overall, I hope this helps you as it can seem like a never-ending frustration to use some web-cams under Linux, while many other web-cams work out of the box !

If it was useful to you or if you found something I could add, please leave a comment !

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How do I install the driver for a Microsoft Lifecam VX-3000?

I have looked all over Ask Ubuntu and can’t find any way to install the driver easily. I will be fine by doing it through terminal if that is how to do it.

4 Answers 4

Driver

The driver for this webcam is already included, and it should work out of the box. You can check if it does with cheese .

The kernel module for this webcam is called gspca_sonixj . You can check if it’s loaded with:

Skype

Testing if it works

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.

Start Skype from a Terminal window by running:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype 

or if you’re on a 64bit system (if output of uname -m is x86_64 ):

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype 

In Ubuntu 11.10 the path changed, so for 32bit use

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype 

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype 

In Ubuntu 12.04 the path for 64bit changed again, so use

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype 

Making it permanent

If this works, you can change the Menu entry similar to how @demua suggests doing:

copy /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop to a file in your Profile to prevent future updates from undoing your changes. This can be done in a Terminal with:

mkdir -p $HOME/.local/share/applications cp /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop $HOME/.local/share/applications/ 

 Exec=env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skype 

The workaround for Skype also works for other legacy applications and other webcams that only support unusual formats. Tested with:

Great response and perfect fix, I’ve used this several times on multiple occasions and keep it bookmarked. Thank you!

Your webcam should work out of the box in 11.10. What are the outputs of these commands?

lsusb | grep LifeCam sudo lsmod | grep v4l1_compat 

Make sure video for linux is installed

#32-bit sudo apt-get install libv4l-0 #64-bit sudo apt-get install libv4l-0 lib32v4l-0 

Skype may not detect the camera however. To solve that issue, force skype to load the v4l library like so:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype 

lsusb | grep LifeCam shows the VX-5000 very clearly. March 2018 Ubuntu 16.04, full-motion video by default in cheese . Excellent answer.

uninstall libavcodec53 and

install xubuntu restricted extras

echo -e "\n# libv4l PPA\ndeb http://ppa.launchpad.net/libv4l/ppa/ubuntu `lsb_release -c | awk ''` main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C3FFB4AA sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libv4l-0 LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype bash -c 'LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype' 

First trz to edit in the launcher the command and put

bash -c 'LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype 

If you are using Ubuntu 11.04 and Unity or other desktop environment, Menu Editor is not available. To edit launcher in Unity you need to edit Skype.desktop

So start terminal and type:

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop 

Now edit in line 4, replace;

Exec=bash -c 'LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype' 

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• Frist, Download the file. Check the computer settings for the location of the file.
• Click Start (Windows) -> Control Panel -> Device Manager (Select Device Manager).
• On the Device Manager window find and click on computer name to select Add legacy hardware, klik OK
• Selext Install the hardware that I manually select from a list (Advanced), and click the Next
• Select Show All Devices afterward click Next button again, Click the Have Disk button.
• Click Browse button to find the extracted Android ADB Driver -> android_winusb.inf and click on Open, and OK
• Now select the Android ADB Interface -> click Next button.
• Windows Security box will appear, to confirm whether you really want to install the Android USB Driver, so just choose the Install this driver software anyway.
• Once you clicked the Finish button, then repeat from step 2 to choose Android Composite ADB Interface.
• Wait for the installation driver to complete.

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