cheese is not able to record video - frozen first picture

[Sasa Paporovic]

Cheese is able to start a video recording, but the video picture got frozen immediatelly.

Stopping recording of the video triggers no further action in cheese. The video keeps frozen on the first picture of the recording.

The video could not be saved in any way.

In the webcam folder /home/user/video/webcam/ is only a open video stream of .webm format.

Steps to reproduce:
1.Start cheese
2.Choose the video recording mode.
3.Start recording of the video
4.See the video freez imdediatelly
5.Stop recording after a while
6.See that cheese is not able to do any further actions. Also saving is not possible.
7.Open your filebrowser and lokk into /home/user/video/webcam
    and see the still open video stream in .webm format with 0 bytes.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: cheese 3.5.5-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 1 15:38:10 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/cheese
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120722)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no username)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cheese
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

The open stream file could not be attached.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jan D (jandeyk-gmail)]

Exactly the same here...EXCEPT that "Cheese.." crashes after freezing for a 1/2 second.
Running in a terminal gives:

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started

(cheese:3298): cheese-WARNING **: Jack server not found

(cheese:3298): cheese-WARNING **: Could not initialize supporting library.

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[cyzen (cyzen)]

Got exactly the same behaviour and messages as Jan D describes

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

As you can see in the headline, I have reported this upstream to the original developers of cheese.

When you follow the link to the upstream bugtracker, there you can find a

CC List: Add me to CC list

at the bottom of the page.

Please attach you there to follow the discussion with the original developers.

It would be helpfull to get a stacktrace there. I could not in moment, so when somebody would like...

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

I have marked this here as dub of bug 1062282

because there is a stacktrace