GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 486250
[v4l2src] fails to initialize webcam first time after boot
Last modified: 2011-08-11 12:50:18 UTC
When Gstreamer tries to initialize my webcam for the first time after a reboot it fails. I need to try one more time to get a picture. gstreamer-properties: 1. Press "Test". 2. Fails with message that it could not make a test pipeline. 3. Press "Test" again, success! 1. Start cheese. 2. Fails with message that it could not find any webcam. 3. Start cheese again, success! Other information: Ubuntu 7.04 and Gstreamer 0.10.12
Could you run gstreamer-properties like this: $ GST_DEBUG=*:5 gstreamer-properties 2>dbg.log ... make it fail ... ... try again and make it succeed ... Quit or interrupt with Control-C $ gzip dbg.log and attach the dbg.log.gz file? Also, if you have a gutsy installation already: does it work with gutsy?
Created attachment 97185 [details] Debug log from Ubuntu 7.04.
It's the same problem with both versions of Ubuntu.
apparently grabbing the first picture takes 16 (!) seconds, which makes the test program time out.
What device is that with? The kernel driver might be a bit broken...
Filip can you reply the comment 5 ?
Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of GStreamer Core 0.10.35, Base Plugins 0.10.35, Good Plugins 0.10.30 stable release, tia.