Picture filesize is 0 byte

[Joel Dimbernat]

When I take a picture, the countdown starts and the pic is taken. But then it doesn't appear, instead there is the stock gtk "broken image" icon.

I tried to open the picture in eye of gnome, impossible to load it. The file size is also 0 byte.

Probably a problem in the gstreamer pipeline with my config, but since it works in cheese, I think it's worth reporting.

[Joel Auterson (joel-auterson)]

I believe this is a hardware issue, as different webcams have different delays. Will look into making Gstreamer wait until the camera is ready?

[calmglow (calmglow)]

I also have a same problem. My laptop's model is Lenovo X201i. And the Ubuntu version is 10.10.

[Javier (jnorambuena)]

Same problem with maverick on acer one.

[Joel Dimbernat (joel-dimbernat-gmail)]

I tried

[bokal@GreenLight photostory]$ gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! video/x-raw-yuv,width=640,height=480 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! pngenc ! filesink location=foo.png
Définition du pipeline à PAUSED...
Le pipeline est actif et n'a pas besoin de phase PREROLL...
Passage du pipeline à la phase PLAYING...
New clock: GstSystemClock
EOS reçu de l'élément « pipeline0 ».
Execution ended after 2597575094 ns.
Définition du pipeline à PAUSED...
Définition du pipeline à READY (prêt)...
Définition du pipeline à NULL...
Libération du pipeline...

Seems like on my comp it's taking 2,5s to make the picture.
So I modified time.sleep(1) => time.sleep(3) in takePic() and it works.

[Philipp Zöchner (zornp)]

same problem under 10.10 with my dell studio. picture taking takes 1.6s

[Joel Dimbernat (joel-dimbernat-gmail)]

I've uploaded in my branch : https://code.launchpad.net/~joel-dimbernat-gmail/photostory/gettext some code to wait for the EOS event before closing the pipeline in capture().

It seems to work for me.

[Christophe de Carvalho (christophe-dcpm)]

just test the code of joel Dombernat and it's work for me too.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Broken for me as well while Cheese and Skype work flawlessly.

[Joel Dimbernat (joel-dimbernat-gmail)]

Hi Vadim,

Did you try with the latest revision of the code? or is it 1.0?

[Seria (andreas-boettger)]

1,1 ms here
gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! video/x-raw-yuv,width=640,height=480 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! pngenc ! filesink location=foo.png
Leitung wird auf PAUSIERT gesetzt ...
Leitung ist aktiv und erfordert keinen VORLAUF …
Leitung wird auf ABSPIELEN gesetzt ...
New clock: GstSystemClock
EOS wurde von Element »pipeline0« erhalten.
Execution ended after 1113093476 ns.
Leitung wird auf PAUSIERT gesetzt ...
Leitung wird auf BEREIT gesetzt ...
Leitung wird auf NULL gesetzt ...
Leitung wird geleert ...

[Enam Mijbah Noor (emnoor)]

Had the same problem with the one installed via PPA. But when I replaced the /usr/bin/photostory with the one I got from `bzr branch lp:photostory` and now it works! There is some difference in the code it seems.