Comment 25 for bug 838739

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Joaquin (jknvv13) wrote : Re: [Bug 838739] Re: Wrong colors and lines with resolutions above 640x480

Fixed by the V4L ppa...
El 14/11/2011 02:20, "Faidon Liambotis" <email address hidden>
escribió:

> I'm also affected by this bug, but I'm using Debian, not Ubuntu :)
> Crawling the web for this bug, I encountered this bug and the libv4l PPA
> suggestion was particulary helpful (thanks!).
>
> I've tried to find why and it seems that the libv4l PPA version links
> against libjpeg62, while the Oneiric one against libjpeg8 and that may
> be the culprit. Debian's libv4l source package is almost identical with
> the PPA one; the only difference I could see on the binaries was the
> libjpeg transition and that seems to fit the description of the problem.
>
> [ I've added the distribution link to the Debian bug, in which I've also
> sent my findings; I thought it'd be helpful to also add a comment here.
> ]
>
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> duplicate bug report (850421).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/838739
>
> Title:
> Wrong colors and lines with resolutions above 640x480
>
> Status in Cheese Camera Application:
> New
> Status in Skype:
> New
> Status in “cheese” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “skype” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “cheese” package in Debian:
> Unknown
>
> Bug description:
> After Oneiric upgrade cheese started showing 1280x1024 resolution as new
> one (1024x768 was reachable in natty).
> However the images and video on that resolution have color planes decoded
> in a wrong way or camera is requested to provide images in non-decodable
> encoding.
>
> Running guvcview at the same resolution in YUYV mode @1280x1024
> produces the correct result, however if I switch guvcview to YV12 the
> image starts resembling the one of Cheese.
>
> These are the capabilities that guvcview shows:
> http://paste.ubuntu.com/679616/
> The picture of how the (sorry, blurred) TV test screen looks is here -
> http://ubuntuone.com/3e0EAh2maOjrm7PYTTL3aQ
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
> Package: cheese 3.0.1-2ubuntu2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3
> Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Thu Sep 1 13:50:21 2011
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64
> (20100429)
> MachineType: Acer Aspire 5520
> RelatedPackageVersions:
> cheese 3.0.1-2ubuntu2
> cheese-common 3.0.1-2ubuntu2
> SourcePackage: cheese
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-30 (1 days ago)
> dmi.bios.date: 05/06/2008
> dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
> dmi.bios.version: V1.33
> dmi.board.name: Fuquene
> dmi.board.vendor: Acer
> dmi.board.version: N/A
> dmi.chassis.type: 10
> dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
> dmi.chassis.version: N/A
> dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV1.33:bd05/06/2008:svnAcer:pnAspire5520:pvrV1.33:rvnAcer:rnFuquene:rvrN/A:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A:
> dmi.product.name: Aspire 5520
> dmi.product.version: V1.33
> dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
>
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