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Bug 591942 - Cannot record video
Cannot record video
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 564957
Product: cheese
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.26.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 2.28
Assigned To: Cheese Maintainer(s)
Cheese Maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-08-16 07:13 UTC by Thorsten Staerk
Modified: 2009-10-25 11:57 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Thorsten Staerk 2009-08-16 07:13:44 UTC 
I cannot record a video with cheese.

I start cheese, select "record video", wait till I am shown in the window, select "stop recording". A new icon appears below. When I double-click on it, Totem starts, but it only shows a black video.

My drivers are okay, I see a video from mine in the cheese window, it just is not recorded. I have used the binaries from Ubuntu and compiled my own - same problem. Can you give me any hint how to narrow down the problem?
Comment 1 Thorsten Staerk 2009-08-16 07:17:45 UTC 
I frequently get this on the command line:
libv4l2: error converting / decoding frame data: v4l-convert: error parsing JPEG header: Not a JPG file ?
Comment 2 Licio Fonseca 2009-08-19 15:42:05 UTC 
Thanks for reporting this bug. 
I've tested it on my netbook running ubuntu 9.04 and it works fine. 
Without a stack trace from the crash it's very hard to determine what caused it. Can you get us a stack trace? Please see http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces for more information on how to do so. 
Thanks in advance!
Comment 3 Thorsten Staerk 2009-08-23 08:16:21 UTC 
It does not crash.
Comment 4 Thorsten Staerk 2009-08-23 08:17:09 UTC 
Note: I cannot remove the status NEEDINFO for this bug report.
Comment 5 Licio Fonseca 2009-08-23 16:05:43 UTC 
Closing this bug report as the reporter can't reproduce it anymore.
Comment 6 Thorsten Staerk 2009-08-23 18:29:12 UTC 
I can reproduce this bug, but it is not a crash.
Comment 7 Filippo Argiolas 2009-09-21 17:23:22 UTC 
Are you using cheese in a netbook?
Comment 8 Thorsten Staerk 2009-09-22 04:28:54 UTC 
Yes. It is a Dell Latitude 2100 (with touchscreen :) 
It has an integrated 1.3M pixel webcam.
Comment 9 Aidan Delaney 2009-10-24 19:54:34 UTC 
Are you, perchance, opening cheese on an external monitor? i.e. not your netbook's screen?
Comment 10 Thorsten Staerk 2009-10-25 06:59:02 UTC 
(In reply to comment #9)
> Are you, perchance, opening cheese on an external monitor? i.e. not your
> netbook's screen?

No I am using my netbook's screen. I am using Ubuntu 9.04.
Comment 11 Filippo Argiolas 2009-10-25 11:57:57 UTC 
I don't know if the libv4l error is really important...
It seems our usual bug with netbooks... currently cheese simply fails to record videos on low power processors.
See the duplicated bug and bug 584075 comment 5 for more info.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 564957 ***