Cheese freezes - doesn't show output

[PerJensen]

Binary package hint: cheese

When starting cheese, the webcam lights up indicating "on" as expected.

Webcam output is not shown, clicking on "effect" freezes the application, changing image size in properties freezes the application.

When starting from an xterm, no output is given from the application.

Ubuntu version:
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Intrepid Ibex RC1 upgraded from Hardy Heron

Cheese Version:
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pj@quadro:~$ apt-cache policy cheese
cheese:
  Installeret: 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
  Kandidat: 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
  Versionstabel:
 *** 2.24.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Webcam from lsusb:
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ID 046d:0992 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate Deluxe

[PerJensen (per-net-es)]

Forgot to mention the webcam worked with Hardy Heron, but on a 32 bit version, I have since changed to Hardy Heron 64bit and upgrade to Intrepid.

Have attached hardware info

[PerJensen (per-net-es)]

Xawtv did not work yesterday.

Have now tried ekiga - which displays nicely.

After that, tried cheese, still no picture - then tried Xawtv which now works fine.

[Eduardo (ludentico)]

When I upgraded to intrepid, happened the same: cheese doesn't display any output and, if I try to take a picture, it freezes. It worked nice on hardy 8.04

[Shane Kerr (shane-time-travellers)]

I have almost exactly the same symptoms on my laptop. I have a MacBook Pro 3.1, and the iSight camera worked fine with Hardy 8.04 but not with Intrepid 8.10. Ekiga, Skype, and gstreamer-properties can all see and use the camera fine.

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

Hi!

This is most probably a dup from bug #290506

Could you confirm to us if changing the resolution within cheese properties menu to 176x144 would give you video?

thanks!

[Shane Kerr (shane-time-travellers)]

Yes, this might be related. I can also set the resolution to 320x240 and it works fine. If I try to set the resolution to the resolution I used in Hardy 8.04 (720x480) then the application fails. This is similar to bug #290506.

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

OK, so we've got two separate bugs but maybe related each other.

It seems we've got a bug affecting cheese/gstreamer (bug #290506) and another one affecting uvcvideo (bug #287888).

Those whom can solve the error recompiling the uvcvideo driver as described in #287888 please follow that one, the others that can solve the problem changing resolution would have the #290506

Thanks!

I'm marking this one as dupe of bug #290506

[PerJensen (per-net-es)]

Changing resolution to 176x144 freezes cheese on my machine

[Fabian A. Scherschel (fabsh)]

PerJensen: Kill it and start it again. It will work at that resolution then.