Ubuntu
cheese package

  1. Bug #1295247
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 1295247

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Andreas Kohlbach (ank) wrote : Re: Cheese says "There was an error playing video from webcam"

I'd like to add that this problem also affects Debian (Jessie) 32bit. There were quite some kernel updates over the time without improvement. And that it worked with the same web came before.

Also that it behaves a little different here than described by others: Cheese comes up but all looks already grey in grey. I seem to be able take a photo (count down and the "flash" can be seen) but then the already mentioned error message "There was an error playing video from webcam" shows up. And no photo materializes anywhere.

Otherwise the web cam works fine. lsusb says it's a

ID 05c8:0348 Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd (Foxlink)

My apritude log note April 2nd for the update which updated

[UPGRADE] cheese:i386 3.10.1-1sid1 -> 3.10.1-1sid1+b1

[other things]

[UPGRADE] libcheese-gtk23:i386 3.10.1-1sid1 -> 3.10.1-1sid1+b1
[UPGRADE] libcheese7:i386 3.10.1-1sid1 -> 3.10.1-1sid1+b1