When I use skype my video is upside down. But when I use Google hangouts or cheese it is fine. How do I fix this?
I have tried many things and nothing ever has worked. My laptop is a Asus K53E.
This is a link to a blog that appears to have solved the upside-down webcam issue on ubuntu 12.10.
First you need to make you have the libv4l-0 package installed.
To install libv4l-0 open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install libv4l-0
If your system is 64-bit then you should specify the i386 architecture, as this is what seems to work with Skype:
sudo apt-get install libv4l-0:i386
Step 2 is to edit skype.desktop so you can pre-load libv4l-0 with skype so type in terminal: sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop
In this file find Exec=skype and replace it with with Exec=env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
