GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 626689
Video recording doesn't work when correct sound source selected.
Last modified: 2020-11-12 07:12:33 UTC
I think this is a duplicate, but I was told it was not and to file a new bug report so here it is. Symptem: I can capture photos fine. If I select video and click start recording, the preview window goes black and the start recording button changes to stop recording. It stays this way until I press the stop recording button which depresses, and then cheese is non responsive. It will not even refresh its window and must be killed. If however I misconfigure my system so that the audio input device is the wrong device (an ATI HDTV Wonder), I can successfully record video, but without sound and aside from the "Start Recording" button being grayed out, Cheese is still running properly. The symptoms are the same as those that another bug is blaming on limited CPU horsepower with the exception of the partial work around, and the fact that this is an i7 920 based system. The web cam in question is the Microsoft LifeCam Cinema. This web cam does work properly with sound using Skype.
The bug I think this is a duplicate of is 564957 As someone in that bug report mentioned that GUVCVideo worked where Cheese did not, I gave it a try. I can confirm that GUVCViewer will record video and sound where Cheese would not. I was able to record video with GUVCViewer at 800x600 in motion JPEG format without glitches. 1280x720 or 1280x800 both had lip-sync issues, low frame rate and audio glitches.
As reported here : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cheese/+bug/689599 I have a very similar bug : (Using Ubuntu 10.10 AMD 64, Cheese 2.32.0, C300 Logitech Webcam) - If I choose "internal line in" as audio source in the PulseAudio mixer : the Cheese GUI hangs after recording a video (and the preview only contained a still picture -- it stopped moving just after clicking the "start recording" button) - If I choose "Webcam C300" in the PulseAudio settings : the first video is recorded properly : preview OK, GUI still responsive after stopping it. But the subsequent recordings only contain an empty file, as in this bugreport : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630499 (I have to restart Cheese)
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