Comment 0 for bug 377996

Binary package hint: cheese

Using Jaunty on a sony vaio laptop VGN-FE31H, cheese crashes when trying to record a video with the following message:

"** Message: Error: Le flux ne contient aucune donnée.
gsttypefindelement.c(786): gst_type_find_element_activate (): /GstPlayBin:play/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstTypeFindElement:typefind:
Can't typefind empty stream

** (cheese:13098): WARNING **: could not generate thumbnail for /home/valerie/Vidéos/Webcam/2009-05-16-210337.ogv (video/ogg)
"

More specifically:
- The video is displayed fine
- When the record button is pressed, the image turn greenish and the program crashes.
The only way to abort the program is to kill the process.

I successfully could record video on the same laptop using wxCam with the type of image set to YUYV (in case it helps). Also gstreamer-properties doesn't return any error, and displays the video correctly if I use l4v2. If I try using l4v2 the image turns green and freezes.

Here is the version of cheese used:
apt-cache policy cheese
cheese:
  Installé : 2.26.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidat : 2.26.0-0ubuntu1
 Table de version :
 *** 2.26.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status