I am currently running 8.10, but the cam seemed to work just fine in 8.04.
I completely forgot where I got that tarball, but I have it saved locally. Does anyone know a good place to upload it where it would be convenient? It's 3.57 megs, so I can't attach it here.
Last edited by BigDamnHero; December 31st, 2008 at 12:29 AM.
Running gstreamer-properties and selecting the actual device on the Video tab seems to have fixed cheese. camorama and several flash-based websites still do not work, though some flash websites do.
I also downloaded the latest flash10 pluguin alpha from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html . Unpacking the libflashplayer-10.0.d21.1.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz gets you a libflashplayer.so. Quit your browser and copy the libflashplayer.so over all instances on your system to update.
I enabled the proposed repository today to take care of a bug that is likely to shorten the lives of laptop hard disks. The new repo included a newer rev of Cheese, which fixed everything. Photos are captured and videos record at all resolutions. The live display only refreshes once every 750ms or so, but video records properly in sync. To add the 'proposed' repo, add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list and run Update Manager.
Code:deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-proposed restricted main multiverse universe
Hi there!
i just try the cheese included in the proposed repo but still not working at my laptop
the output:
my kernel:Code:zea@sendai:~$ cheese ** 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:13093): WARNING **: could not generate thumbnail for /home/zea/Videos/Webcam/2009-01-19-134942.ogv (video/ogg) (cheese:13093): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad source:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps (cheese:13093): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad source:src returned caps which are not a real subset of its template caps (cheese:13093): 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
my cam:Code:2.6.27-9-generic
Code:zea@sendai:~$ lsusb Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04f2:b016 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Hey guys I've found this solution on the italian forum and it worked for me. Give it a try!
Skalka.
Last edited by skalka; January 20th, 2009 at 01:32 AM.
This bug was addressed by a new version of cheese and V4L by way of updates in intrepid. This works OK now. If this is solved for the thread starter. can you please put [solved] and mod needs to close this thread ?
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