GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 743706
'There is an error playing video from webcam' - Problem with default dconf configuration?
Last modified: 2015-02-03 12:27:09 UTC
I believe the old 'There is an error playing video from webcam' message when I try to take a photo or record a video is related to cheese's dconf configuration. Anyway, browsing the org.gnome.Cheese schema on dconf-editor, both 'photo-path' and 'video-path' have a similar description: 'Defines the path where the photos are stored. If empty, "XDG_PHOTO/Webcam" will be used. 'Defines the path where the videos are stored. If empty, "XDG_VIDEO/Webcam" will be used.' The problem is that recent xdg-user-dirs and xdg-user-dirs packages are named differently. I for instance have installed: xdg-user-dirs 0.15 xdg-user-dirs-gtk 0.10 And running 'xdg-user-dirs-update' will write a ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file with the following content: --- # This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update # If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're # interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run # Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped # homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an # absolute path. No other format is supported. # XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads" XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates" XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public" XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents" XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music" XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures" XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos" --- So is cheese default empty string calling the wrong directory? XDG_VIDEO instead of XDG_VIDEOS_DIR and XDG_PHOTO instead of XDG_PICTURES_DIR? Because if I set in dconf a directory I have write access to, everything is fine.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 730775 ***