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Bug 676126 - Video recording with webcam has a really bad performance .
Video recording with webcam has a really bad performance .
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: dont know
0.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
: git master
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-05-15 20:09 UTC by EagleScreen
Modified: 2012-09-22 21:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description EagleScreen 2012-05-15 20:09:57 UTC 
Hello, video recording with a webcam in Linux has a very bad performance. I have tested this with multiple computers and multiple different webcams and multiple GNU/Linux distributions and in all of them is present this problem.
I have used Cheese and Kamorama applications, both with gstreamer backend.
This bug makes in fact impossible to record a video with any tool using gstreamer as backend.
Instead of recording a fluid video stream, the image is frozen and only is refreshed each 5 seconds (more or less).
Comment 1 Tim-Philipp Müller 2012-05-15 21:01:45 UTC 
Can you provide more detail? (What webcam? What versions of cheese/GStreamer? Recording to what format? Do you have a GST_DEBUG log? Does it work with non-GStreamer applications? Could you make a sample file of a short recording available? What CPU/chipset? What's your CPU usage while recording what resolution to what format? etc.)

It generally works fine for most people most of the time, so not sure why it doesn't work for you.
Comment 2 Tobias Mueller 2012-09-22 21:16:16 UTC 
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!