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cheese package

"There was an error playing video from the webcam"

Bug #1758994 reported by Ahmet Aksoy
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
cheese (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned
gst-plugins-good1.0 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium

Bug Description

Chesee version: 3.28
Ubuntu version: 18.04 (26.03.18 updated)

when i open cheese, cheese shows "There was an error playing video from the webcam"

Crashlog:
UNPC:~$ cheese

(cheese:11112): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:07:11.856: Theme parsing error: cheese.css:7:35: The style property GtkScrollbar:min-slider-length is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version

(cheese:11112): cheese-WARNING **: 21:07:12.958: Device '/dev/video0' failed during initialization: gstv4l2object.c(3695): gst_v4l2_object_set_format_full (): /GstCameraBin:camerabin/GstWrapperCameraBinSrc:camera_source/GstBin:bin18/GstV4l2Src:v4l2src1:
Call to TRY_FMT failed for YUYV @ 1280x720: Input/output error

Tags: bionic
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

Changed in cheese (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Alex (alexbennett) wrote :

I was able to recreate this bug in bionic - 27/03/2018

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in cheese (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Jehandan Jeyaseelan (jehanjey) wrote :

Hi,

I am also affected by this bug. Will there be a fix for this? I am running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic)

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Jehandan Jeyaseelan (jehanjey) wrote :

Hi I can confirm that when I install camorama from the Ubuntu Software application in 18.04 LTS the webcam works properly while cheese displays the error.

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Jeremie Knuesel (knuesel) wrote :

This looks exactly like an issue that has just been worked around in GStreamer (see upstream bug at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796789, the fix will be in release 1.14.2).

affects: cheese → gst-plugins-good1.0 (Ubuntu)
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Changed in gst-plugins-good1.0 (Ubuntu):
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Jehandan Jeyaseelan (jehanjey) wrote :

Hi, I was wondering as to when the fix will be included in Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS?

The fix has been out since July but users of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS haven't received the updated packages with the fix yet. It is still 1.14.1 for gst-plugins-good1.0.

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Tamado (ramot) wrote :

Hi, when will the fix included in LTS? Bionic is on 18.04.2 now but the fix hasn't been included at all.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

We should SRU .2 to bionic indeed

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