Output window freezes when pressing record video

[Pieter Engelbrecht]

When I open cheese, click the video icon, and Record a Video the display for the video/display output for the webcam freezes. The video is then never recorded and I am unable to also take pictures unless I restart cheese. This problem did not occur in Ubuntu 13.04 - which is why I created this new report.

When running cheese from the terminal, I get the following output right after pressing Record a Video:

(cheese:15522): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_mini_object_unref: assertion 'mini_object != NULL' failed

(cheese:15522): cheese-WARNING **: Filter caps do not completely specify the output format

(cheese:15522): cheese-WARNING **: Internal data flow error.

The same happens (problem and terminal error) for another computer that I have where cheese also worked with Ubuntu 13.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: cheese 3.8.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 28 15:11:31 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-18 (9 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: cheese
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jhonny Oliveira (jhonny-oliveira)]

Anyone working on this?

[Pieter Engelbrecht (chesedo)]

@Jhonny, not that I'm aware of (still unassigned).

I have tried install the version that came with Raring (v 3.6.2-0ubuntu3) with the cheese-common (version of Raring) and some other package (that I can't remember now) that was needed. This did not help, so I guess that the problem must be among the dependencies.

I am willing to try earlier versions of the dependencies (if the problem might be there), if someone might know which ones might be the problem?

[Learn Enjoy (koi-kho-gaya)]

I am also facing same issue....please solve this prob.... i am just converted to Ubuntu from Windows...and this is one of the pain in enjoying ubuntu.