Binary package hint: cheese
When I try to record a video in Cheese, i get very few pictures with a huge time gap between them. I already reduced the resolution manually to 960 x 720, so that the picture mode runs seamless, but for the video mode it doesn't help.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: cheese 2.32.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 23 12:59:05 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
MachineType: NVIDIA MCP7A
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=de:en
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions:
cheese 2.32.0-0ubuntu2
cheese-common 2.32.0-0ubuntu2
SourcePackage: cheese
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-17 (5 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/02/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: MCP7A
dmi.board.vendor: NVIDIA
dmi.board.version: 2
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: NVIDIA
dmi.chassis.version: MCP7A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd06/02/2009:svnNVIDIA:pnMCP7A:pvr2:rvnNVIDIA:rnMCP7A:rvr2:cvnNVIDIA:ct3:cvrMCP7A:
dmi.product.name: MCP7A
dmi.product.version: 2
dmi.sys.vendor: NVIDIA
While running the "ubuntu-bug cheese", you have reported that the test video does not have any problems, are you sure the test video does not drop frames and the problem is only when recording with cheese?
From a terminal run the following command, and see if the problem exists:
gst-launch-0.10 autovideosrc ! ffmpegcolorspace ! autovideosink
Can you try recording videos with better lighting? Try taking the laptop outside in bright sunlight. See if there is any improvement on the frames per second.