Comment 1 for bug 377996

I can confirm this issue... When i try to record a video with cheese and a Microsoft LifeCam Cinema, cheese crashes immediately without a traceout on the shell...

$ LANG=C cheese
^C

After i kill the process and restart Cheese I get these messages

$ LANG=C cheese

** (process:5041): WARNING **: Couldn't change nice value of process.
** Message: Error: Stream contains no data.
gsttypefindelement.c(863): gst_type_find_element_activate (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstDecodeBin2:decodebin20/GstTypeFindElement:typefind:
Can't typefind empty stream

totem-video-thumbnailer couldn't open file 'file:///home/user/Videos/Webcam/2009-11-10-214440.ogv'
Reason: Stream contains no data..

** (cheese:5038): WARNING **: could not generate thumbnail for /home/user/Videos/Webcam/2009-11-10-214440.ogv (video/ogg)

I think they are caused by the bad video file. My system says about the webcam the following...

$ cat /var/log/messages | grep LifeCam
Nov 10 21:25:43 isleofskye kernel: [ 404.941798] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Microsoft® LifeCam Cinema(TM) (045e:075d)
Nov 10 21:25:43 isleofskye kernel: [ 404.950431] input: Microsoft® LifeCam Cinema(TM) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/input/input8

$ lsusb | grep Microsoft
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 045e:075d Microsoft Corp.