I'm seeing something similar. I have a Creative Live! IM webcam and I'm running Ubuntu 8.10.
luvcview displays the camera stream fine.
Likewise, xawtv displays the cam video data just fine.
Cheese shows a blank screen and gives the following error in the console:
Code:
(cheese:6021): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad source:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps
** Message: Error: Stream contains no data.
gsttypefindelement.c(785): gst_type_find_element_activate (): /GstPlayBin:play/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstTypeFindElement:typefind:
Can't typefind empty stream
** (cheese:6021): WARNING **: could not generate thumbnail for /home/jgloza/Videos/Webcam/2008-12-27-130007.ogv (video/ogg)
(cheese:6021): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad source:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps
(cheese:6021): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad video_source:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps
libv4l2: error converting / decoding frame data: v4l-convert: error destination buffer too small
camorama gives the following error on startup:
Code:
Could not connect to video device (/dev/video0). Please check connection.
skype exits silently during its initialization process.
ekiga is able to read and display the camera video.
Browser-enabled video chats (icamonline,meebo) do not recognize the video camera, but do find the microphone on the camera!
Hope this helps.
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