Ubuntu
cheese package

  1. Bug #1295247
  2. Comment #34

Comment 34 for bug 1295247

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Ramsey Gurley (ramseygurley) wrote : Re: Cheese says "There was an error playing video from webcam"

I have the same problem using a Realtek cam on a 2015 Razer Blade 14". When I start cheese, I get some half video for a couple seconds then it dies with:

libv4l2: error got 4 consecutive frame decode errors, last error: v4l-convert: libjpeg error: End Of Image

(cheese:14656): cheese-WARNING **: Internal data flow error.: gstbasesrc.c(2865): gst_base_src_loop (): /GstCameraBin:camerabin/GstWrapperCameraBinSrc:camera_source/GstBin:bin17/GstV4l2Src:video_source:
streaming task paused, reason error (-5)

The camera is:

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0bda:579f Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

I have more camera info here if someone is interested:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/662274/webcam-only-works-with-luvcview#

The camera works perfectly with luvcview. The camera fails with cheese in default settings, but sorta works if I go into preferences and choose 1280x720 resolution for images and video and restart cheese. I still get a horizonal line in the video near the bottom though. The camera fails with the gumwrapper example in Firefox.

https://github.com/tagawa/GumWrapper

The camera looks scrambled on the same example in chromium, very similar to if I had chosen 640x480 in cheese as the camera resolution. Using ubuntu 14.04.3. Cheese fails with default kernel as well as 4.0 vivid kernel.