Cheese : If two v4l devices exist there is no way to choose the correct one

[Stéphane Marguet]

Binary package hint: cheese

I have two video devices and Cheese connect to my tv card (/dev/video0) instead of my webcam (/dev/video1).

[Aspis (matticala)]

Actually you can: you can select default v4l device from gstreamer-properties. However, you cannote choose between v4l or v4l2 source.

I have a v4l webcam (doesn't work with v4l2, it works with Camorama and GStreamer anyway) and a video capture card (v4l2 compliant), cheese looks just for v4l2 source.

[Ramaddan (ramaddan)]

Same problem here.

I tried to change the default gstreamer video device to /dev/video1, and even tried changing the webcam string in Gconf-editor, but it still refuses to use my Camera, but instead uses my TV tuner /dev/video0

Hope you can point me in the right direction.

I use Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (64-bit version)

[CirclingTheSun (circlingthesun)]

Same happens here

[Blacknight (michael-blacknight)]

same here and it seems like there is no -d option via terminal either..

[craigs80 (craigs80)]

I've also got the same problem, running Hardy (64bit), funny thing was it did work ok once until i rebooted, no changes were made in between either.

[Luis Mondesi (lemsx1)]

I only have one camera and it works fine with other programs.

$> v4l-info

### video4linux device info [/dev/video0] ###
general info
    VIDIOCGCAP
 name : "CPiA Camera"
 type : 0x201 [CAPTURE,SUBCAPTURE]
 channels : 1
 audios : 0
 maxwidth : 352
 maxheight : 288
 minwidth : 48
 minheight : 48

channels
    VIDIOCGCHAN(0)
 channel : 0
 name : "Camera"
 tuners : 0
 flags : 0x0 []
 type : CAMERA
 norm : 0

tuner
ioctl VIDIOCGTUNER: Invalid argument

audio
ioctl VIDIOCGAUDIO: Invalid argument

picture
    VIDIOCGPICT
 brightness : 33792
 hue : 32768
 colour : 32768
 contrast : 32768
 whiteness : 0
 depth : 16
 palette : YUV422

buffer
ioctl VIDIOCGFBUF: Invalid argument

window
    VIDIOCGWIN
 x : 0
 y : 0
 width : 48
 height : 48
 chromakey : 0
 flags : 0

"cheese -v" does not work either... it simply does not output anything

This is on Hardy.

[Greg A (etulfetulf)]

This is fixed upstream now, however we must wait for cheese 2.23.5 or higher (currently unstable).

[Greg A (etulfetulf)]

Cheese 2.23.91-0ubuntu1in Ubuntu Intrepid fixes this.

[bro (matthijsbro)]

I'm using intrepid 64-bit on a dell xps 1330 with integrated cam. I'm not getting any working camera with cheese or camorama, it does work with skype though. And it works when gstreamer-properties is testing. So... fix? nope.

[Billy Lindeman (billylindeman)]

I have a creative live vista im camera using the ov51x_jpeg driver. it is v4l-1 only and it is the only v4l device in the system. works fine with skype, ekiga, it is a little buggy with camorama(driver related issues) and it also works in gstreamer properties.. does not work with cheese (2.24.1) on ubuntu intrepid

[Tomasz Czapiewski (xeros)]

It doesn't look as fixed in Ubuntu 9.10 (cheese 2.28.1).
I've got both analog tv card (/dev/video0) and webcam (/dev/video1) v4l2 devices and even if I choose my camera in gstreamer-properties (it works fine there) it still doesn't work in cheese.
From the console logs, 'fuser...' and 'lsof' commands it looks like it still tries to access /dev/video0 instead of /dev/video1.

[LA (radiobuzzer)]

Same on ubuntu 12.04

[Martin (martin3000)]

Cheese 3.26 claims to have a "-d" option for choosing the device. But it does not work. It always takes video0.

[Andrew Gerald (co6aka)]

"-d" option still doesn't work even in v3.30 -- it always uses video0.

[Prasanna Loganathar (pvl)]

Ended up hitting this on my Thinkpad X1. Integrated Camera is always been chosen, and Cheese always seems to reset the settings on each startup even if I change it manually using gsettings.

This is a pretty basic UX high priority bug that's somehow not been payed attention for over a decade since 2007?

[Prasanna Loganathar (pvl)]

^*Integrated IR Camera always selected as default -- instead of the actual webcam.