GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 656579
Changing video device causes video to just freeze
Last modified: 2011-08-19 10:15:50 UTC
I changed my camera from my USB webcam to my internal webcam and instead the video just froze and nothing happened. I could see that the USB webcam had stopped as its light had switched off, and I could see that the laptop webcam had switched on as its light had switched on, but I never got its video. I ended the call and started a new one and it went back to using the USB webcam. Isn't it meant to store this stuff in gsettings?
Same here, I didn't manage to get the "swap webcam" thing working properly.
Created attachment 194159 [details] [review] CallWindow: make empathy_call_window_play_camera() public
Created attachment 194160 [details] [review] Reset all the necessary elements when switching cameras
Please test the above patches and let me know if they work for you... I'm not totally sure if they are right as my usb camera makes empathy-call (and cheese) crash, but I think it's working now since without those patches empathy-call doesn't crash because the video freezes :-)
Okay I tested them out but as the echobot is offline and I don't really have anyone to call right now I didn't actually have a call with anyone. Anyway, my preview changed absolutely fine so, good. I've one more problem about this but I'll open another bug about that. ++ to both patches.
Great, merged.