Webcam will not work reliably (screen blacks out)

[Devin]

Binary package hint: cheese

When running cheese or gstreamer-properties, errors like the following appear:

libv4lconvert: Error decompressing JPEG: unknown huffman code: 0000ffff
libv4lconvert: Error decompressing JPEG: unknown huffman code: 0000ffff
libv4lconvert: Error decompressing JPEG: unknown huffman code: 0000ffff
libv4lconvert: Error decompressing JPEG: unknown huffman code: 0000ffff
libv4lconvert: Error decompressing JPEG: unknown huffman code: 0000ffff

Webcam display is spotty (works for a second, then screen goes black).

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: cheese 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 23 16:49:47 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406.1)
MachineType: LENOVO 8932A37
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=ea548bda-51d4-44f7-a3a9-9eb47a48076c ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cheese
dmi.bios.date: 06/28/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7OET24WW (1.03 )
dmi.board.name: 8932A37
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7OET24WW(1.03):bd06/28/2007:svnLENOVO:pn8932A37:pvrThinkPadR61:rvnLENOVO:rn8932A37:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 8932A37
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad R61
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 502866, and not a bug in cheese,so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.