Webcam don't work in Jaunty's amsn, works compiling the upstream source

[Ricardo Pérez López]

Binary package hint: amsn

When I use amsn_0.97.2~debian-2ubuntu1 from Jaunty, the webcam don't work. I can't send my webcam to any IM contact.

When I click on Account->Preferences, Other tab, and then click on "Edit audio and video settings" button, the "Audio and Video assistant" appears. When I click on Next, aMSN displays an error message (I attach an screenshot to illustrate it) and I'm unable to configure the webcam.

However, if I download and compile the upstream source code from:

  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/amsn/amsn-0.97.2.tar.bz2

then the webcam works perfectly.

Moreover, if I use the amsn & amsn-data packages from Debian Sid:

  http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/amsn/amsn_0.97.2~debian-2_i386.deb
  http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/amsn/amsn-data_0.97.2~debian-2_all.deb

then the webcam works perfectly, too.

Therefore, there's something in the Ubuntu packages which interferes with the webcam support.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: amsn 0.97.2~debian-2ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: amsn
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686