Cheese does not record videos in Lucid [photos taken are fine]

[produnis]

Binary package hint: cheese

Hi folks,

I have this problem on a MacbookPro with a fresh Lucid:

if I try to record a video with cheese, the picture freezes or turns black and nothing is recorded..

Steps to reproduce:
1) Start Cheese
2) File -> Video
3) Start Recording (At this point, the video display goes black.)
4) Click Stop Recording
A video file is created, the application doesn't hang, the camera is still usable afterwards.
The file has no picture (it is just black), and the sound is scrambled

Expected result:
Video is watchable

Actual result:
Video unwatchable

This is too bad, as under Ibex, Jaunty, Karmic, I loved to record some short clips with cheese...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: cheese 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri May 21 15:21:04 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1)
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro4,1
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=3a1a8800-2ead-4e32-88d2-37c6266d9543 ro splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cheese
dmi.bios.date: 02/09/08
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP41.88Z.00C1.B00.0802091544
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: Mac-F42C89C8
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.board.version: PVT
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag#
dmi.chassis.type: 2
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F42C89C8
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP41.88Z.00C1.B00.0802091544:bd02/09/08:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro4,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F42C89C8:rvrPVT:cvnAppleInc.:ct2:cvrMac-F42C89C8:
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro4,1
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.

[Vish (vish)]

Hi , There is debugging information missing from the bug report.
Could you run the following command in a terminal which will launch cheese in debugging mode:

 GST_DEBUG=*cheese*:3 cheese -v 2>&1 | tee cheese-debug.log

After you reproduce the problem , close cheese and attach the file cheese-debug.log [which will be created in your Home folder]

[produnis (schlarmann-uni-wh)]

@Vish: Thx for taking care of this. If typed in your command.... cheese opens up and starts to take one photo after another. I am not able to stop that nor to switch to record a video as there is no toolbar.
Nevertheless, I attached to log file to this post.

[Vish (vish)]

Thats weird.
- Did you try to start cheese normally, from the applications menu [hopefully it didnt have the same problem] and re-try to do the debugging again?
- How did the photos turn out?
- You mention that the problem starts only after you try to record videos [no problems with pictures? ] and
- Do you notice any problems in the image ,When testing the webcam using the command
 gstreamer-properties

[produnis (schlarmann-uni-wh)]

@Vish: The photos are good, no problems.

I only have the problem when trying to record a video, that's right

I followed your advise to start cheese from the application bar, and after that I tried the debug-command again. This time, it worked, so find attached my new log-message.

Running the comand gstreamer-properties, everything seems to be fine...

[Vish (vish)]

The bug has been sent upstream , you can follow the bug at : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619406

[DAP (akadap)]

On my system, cheese hangs when attempting to stop a video.
I get video until I start to record video. Once I hit record, the video window goes black and nothing happens. Hit stop and the button depresses, but nothing happens. At this point I must kill cheese.

[DAP (akadap)]

If you are going to mark bug reports "Invalid" Please state why you are marking it invalid.

I thought maybe the bug had gone away due to some other fix.
I tried using cheese to record video, and successfully recorded a video, but it had no sound. I went to System->Preferences->Sound and found that the system had arbitrarily switched my sound input from my Microsoft Lifecam Cinema to the ATI HDTV Wonder card in my system. I switched it back to the web cam and tried to record a video with Cheese. Cheese hung when I started recording video.
A few times back and fourth proved to me that when my audio input device is the Microsoft Lifecam Cinema, Cheese will hang. If the audio input device is the ATI HDTV Wonder, I get video but no sound.

[Vish (vish)]

@ DAP ,The Upstream bug was marked duplicate , and hence the bug watcher marked the upstream bug status as invalid.
Further from your upstream comments, you are commenting about a problem not related to this bug report. You need to open a separate bug report.

Upstream bug has been marked dup of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564957
Marking this bug as a duplicate of Bug #385344 , as per upstream status.