Serious video performance regression in cheese (2.28.1->2.30.1)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Cheese |
Fix Released
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Critical
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GStreamer |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
OEM Priority Project |
Won't Fix
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High
|
Gary Ekker | ||
Release Notes for Ubuntu |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
cheese (Fedora) |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
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gstreamer0.10 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
High
|
Ubuntu Desktop | ||
Lucid |
Won't Fix
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High
|
Unassigned | ||
Maverick |
Won't Fix
|
High
|
Robert Ancell |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: cheese
Ubuntu version: 10.04
Cheese version: 2.30.1
Hardware: Dell Latitude 2110 netbook - Intel Pinetrail CPU
Settings: minimum resolution - 160x120
Expected behavior: Start recording movie, recording starts promptly.
Actual behavior:
Screen is mostly frozen for ~14 seconds, and then recording appears to start tolerably. Karmic's (2.28.1) performance was pretty poor, but the delay was around 4 seconds.
To give the netbook a chance I set resolution to a minimum resolution. At higher resolutions, like 640x480, the machine just can't keep up at all.
This has been observed on other hardware, and on a Core2Duo machine this startup performance is still very bad (though not quite so bad). Other apps, and gstreamer from the command line, do not seem to suffer the same problems.
Changed in oem-priority: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in cheese: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical Platform QA Team (canonical-platform-qa) |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
assignee: | Canonical Platform QA Team (canonical-platform-qa) → nobody |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical Platform QA Team (canonical-platform-qa) |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
assignee: | Canonical Platform QA Team (canonical-platform-qa) → nobody |
Changed in cheese: | |
importance: | Unknown → Critical |
Changed in ubuntu-release-notes: | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in ubuntu-release-notes: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in gstreamer0.10 (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) → Ubuntu Desktop (ubuntu-desktop) |
tags: | added: guandu |
tags: | removed: guandu |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
assignee: | nobody → Ekkart (e-leschke) |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
assignee: | Ekkart (e-leschke) → Gary Ekker (gekker) |
Changed in cheese: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in gstreamer0.10 (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
assignee: | Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) → nobody |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
Changed in cheese (Fedora): | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Invalid |
Description of problem:
I have an asus eee 1000hd, with a built in webcam (according to kinfocenter it is from Vendor ID 0x4f2, Product ID 0xb071, Revision 15.44). The webcam works well (I used it recently for a video call with skype, under Fedora 10, and just recorded a clip under windows XP. It also worls well under cheese as long as the "start recording" button is not pressed). However, when attempting to record video with cheese, once the button "start recording" is pressed, the video display within the cheese window goes dark, and afterwards, as the image reappears, it seems to do one frame per minute or so, and barely records any audio, which is of a totally useless quality.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.26.2- 1.fc11. i586
$ rpm -q cheese
cheese-
How reproducible:
every time
Steps to Reproduce:
1.start cheese
2.click video
3.click start recording
4.see how it breaks down, as above
5.also, check the resulting recording, and see how there is no useful output, perhaps only two or three frames and some clicking audio
Actual results:
useless recording, as per point 5 above
Expected results:
a useful ogv recording with 30 frames per second video at the chosen resolution, and useful audio, all in a ogv file.
Additional info:
I read some of the other bug reports on cheese, but couldn't find one that matched my bug