cheese: strange colours after upgrade

[Benjamin Halbrock]

Since I installed Ubuntu 11.10 my webcam stop works properly with Cheese. The colours looks strange.
I can use some other alternative webcam applications in the repository and it works normal then.

In the previous version Ubuntu 11.04 I had no problems with Cheese at all.
Have also tryed the latest Pardus 2011.2 (KDE desktop) with Cheese and no problems there.

The webcam is a Logitech C200 thats supposed be the best for Ubuntu:

"The best webcam for linux is currently the Logitech C200, it is reccomended as a "Camera that simply works" on the Official Ubuntu help site."

So why it not working in the latest Ubuntu 11.10?

[Benjamin Halbrock (kontakt-bennis-blog)]

Same problem here:

Linux ThinkPad-Edge 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 17ef:4811 Lenovo Integrated Webcam [R5U877]

[Juan Francisco Contreras García (juanfcocontreras)]

Same problem, weird colours after fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10. My webcam is:

ID 06f8:3004 Guillemot Corp. Hercules Classic Silver

It works perfectly with Guvcview, Camorama and other programs, but not with Cheese. I have tried different things like downloading the latest drivers from linuxtv.org but still no luck. Maybe a kernel bug?

[Juan Francisco Contreras García (juanfcocontreras)]

Same result with:

gst-launch-0.10 autovideosrc ! ffmpegcolorspace ! autovideosink

[Daniil Lopatin (dlopatin)]

This solution was helpful for me:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cheese/+bug/838739/comments/16

[Shrijit Nair (shrijith1)]

Thanks Danil, the solution was helpful to me too!