guvcview won't capture video

[robertbub]

This is on Karmic Koala 9.10.

The video displays fine via guvcview using a Logitech webcam. The trouble is the capturing of the video.

With .AVI, I've tried different video formats (MPEG-4, flash, etc.) and none of them will play. The generated .avi file seems to grow with data, but the result is just unplayable -- it just hangs, thinking it's playing.

Is there a troubleshooting page or something to figure out what the problem I'm having with guvcviewer is?

[robertbub]

It appears that capturing/recording video via guvcview under Karmic just will not work at all no-how. I tried recording video, transferred the .avi file to my Lucid machine and it still would not play. (If I run guvcviewer on Lucid and capture video there, it works fine -- I can play the resulting capture file.)

I installed cheese on Karmic and, although it doesn't generate a .avi file, the resulting .ogv video capture file works perfectly.