Try holding your computer upside down

[jluxenberg]

http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/#footnote-3

[simonsquiff]

Those trying to hunt down the section, it says this:

"3 This camera module is known to be mounted upside-down in some notebooks. Applications that use the libv4l library should display the video correctly, as libv4l detects upside-down cameras and rotates the image automatically. See Hans de Goede's post on the linux-uvc-devel mailing list for more information. For applications that don't use libv4l, try holding your computer upside-down. "

[macemoneta]

It's a joke. If you're not using v4l, then you're rolling your own. So you either have to fix it yourself, or hold it upside down. :)

[jjs → macemoneta]

Or use xrandr to virtually hold your screen upside down. :)

[slug]

I ran into the flipped camera issue with skype on my asus laptop. Skype doesn't use that library, so an easy way to solve it is to LD_PRELOAD, like explained here: http://aeminium.org/slug/software/tips/skype-asus-flipped.ht...

A quick googling will show you several pages with the same workaround.

[quadhome]

https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/linux-uvc-devel/2009-June...

[chrispine]

Isn't this more Reddit material than HN? I'd gladly upvote this... on Reddit.

[Osiris]

That's the best workaround idea I've ever heard.

[anthonyb]

...and shaking it?