One or more needed GStreamer elements are missing: cluttervideosink

[Nizar Kerkeni]

Ubuntu 14.04 fresh install.
When launching cheese this error message is displayed
"One or more needed GStreamer elements are missing: cluttervideosink."

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: cheese 3.10.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Apr 22 23:32:11 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-22 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: cheese
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

does it work better if you delete .cache/gstreamer-1.0?

[Nizar Kerkeni (nizarus)]

Hi Seb,
Yes cheese is working like a charm now after deleting .cache/gstreamer-1.0

[Prasanna Venkadesh (prasmailme)]

Dependency error, gstreamer1.0-clutter has to be installed.

sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-clutter fixed for me. (though am not in ubuntu, using Debain sid).

[Nicholas Skaggs (nskaggs)]

Seb, this seems to me like cheese itself is simply missing a declared dependency on gstreamer1.0-clutter. Cheese doesn't work without it, and installing it fixes the issue.