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Legacy USB WebCam Work-around

The 'Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Express' webcam is not full supported in Linux.

For it to work in Firefox and Chrome browsers a library (v4l1compat.so) preload is needed.

The Command to find out if you have a Logitech QE webcam is lsusb and the device ID would be 046d:092f.

Command Line Execution

For Firefox the command line or script would be like this.

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so firefox 

For Google Chrome.

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so google-chrome