Cheese Webcam Booth will not detect my camera

[BigCityCat]

Here is the ubuntu troubleshooting guide.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/We...roubleshooting

[BigCityCat]

What type of Gstreamer plugin set should I get? I already have the ffmpeg video plugin set

Try installing these.

install the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

[no2498]

this comes from the cheese help FAQ'S


open a terminal type gstreamer-properties click enter

click video
try v4l and v4l2
use the bottom test button for each 1
you may need to change the plugin try setting it to outo

[Bucky Ball]

Just checkes gstreamer-properties and mine is using v4l2 faultlessly if that's any help. Maybe that will work for you too.

[linuxuser12345]

Just checkes gstreamer-properties and mine is using v4l2 faultlessly if that's any help. Maybe that will work for you too.

How do I do that?

[Bucky Ball]

As no2498 mentioned:

-open a terminal
-type gstreamer-properties
-click enter

In other words, Applications>Accessories>Terminal then paste this in:

gstreamer-properties

Click the 'Video' tab and check what you are using. For 'Default Output' I have 'Autodetect.

For Default Input I have 'Video for Linux 2 (v412)'.