webcam camera not working after installing vlc

[msincan]

My webcam was working well in previous releases of Ubuntu. It also worked well after installation of 12.04 and I could use it with skype for video chats, but It doesn't work after I installed VLC. When I open skype options to test the camera, the camera is recognized but when I click "test" all I get is a blank screen.
I tried uninstalling vlc from my system but the problem persists. This problem is most likely due to a conflict between low level video/ webcam libraries used both by mywebcam/skype and vlc.

when I tried the following:
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
I got:
libv4l2: error setting pixformat: Device or resource busy

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[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi, a new skype version 4.1.0.20.0-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 is available, could you please try if you still have the bug with the new version?

If you still have this problem please set the status back to "new".

thanks

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for skype (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]