Ubuntu
cheese package

  1. Bug #1295247
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 1295247

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Mpampis (saperduper) wrote : Re: Cheese says "There was an error playing video from webcam"

I had the following error with cheese:
"libv4l2: error got 4 consecutive frame decode errors, last error: v4l-convert: libjpeg error: End Of Image"

sap@warzycha ~ $ lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Release: 17
Codename: qiana

sap@warzycha ~ $ uname -a
Linux warzycha 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:31:42 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

sap@warzycha ~ $ lsusb
[...]
Bus 003 Device 011: ID 046d:082b Logitech, Inc.
[...]

sap@warzycha ~ $ cat /proc/asound/cards
[...]
 1 [C170 ]: USB-Audio - Webcam C170
                      Webcam C170 at usb-0000:00:1a.0-2, full speed

This did the trick for me was:
1. (install guvcview using "sudo apt-get install guvcview" and) open guvcview
2. close guvcview
3. then open cheese and the webcam works!

(reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056267#c1)