I'm using an Acer 5920 Laptop with an integrated Crystal Eye webcam. It works just fine in Skype, but not in Cheese. At startup, I get a blank screen (no black, just default window color). Here are the errors I get when starting from the terminal.
Code:
** 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:11725): WARNING **: could not generate thumbnail for /home/*****/Videos/Webcam/2008-12-20-141957.ogv (video/ogg)
(cheese:11725): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad source:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps
(cheese:11725): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad source:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps
(cheese:11725): 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
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