Bug 467961

Created attachment 321089 [details]
Fixes the described problem.

This patch adds the following:

 - when falling back to a v4lsrc GStreamer source, disable autoprobe-fps.
 - Also try a YUV stream in 320x200 mode.

This fixes my problems with the Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000.

I am not sure how compatible this fix is with other webcams.  The YUV probe should not be a problem.. Turning off the FPS auto-probing might be more problematic.

Phil.

I meant Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 in comment #1 (not 5000 as I wrote).

The cheese which we have in F-8 is a very early test release (as the version no signals). F-10 (beta) has a much much better version. If you are interested in cheese, and want to write patches to improve it, you really ought to start with the F-10 version.

Note BTW that there is a bug in the pwc driver which may get triggered in combination with libv4l which cheese use in F-10. I'm working on a workaround for this for libv4l (and I'll file a bug against the pwc driver). Things should work with libv4l-0.5.2, which should be in rawhide tomorrow or they day after.

In the mean time I think this bug can be closed as wontfix given the old version of cheese in F-8 and that F-8 is nearly EOL, mclasen what do you think?

Yeah, yeah, I know.  You guys are not interested in fixing the "old" F8.
Guess what?  I'm not interested in beta-testing F10 yet either.

Close the bug if you want.  I fixed it in my personal repo, now other people that will encounter the problem will have it documented somewhere.

I'm still wondering whether or not I should keep reporting bugs.  Either they get closed with the "upgrade to $LATEST" or they just get ignored.

Phil.

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In Fedora 11 this cheese bug still appears for me, however somewhat different
Description of problem:
Cheese starts up.
Cheese displays a frozen web cam output.
info cheese (yum info cheese):
Name       : cheese
Arch       : i586
Version    : 2.26.3
Release    : 1.fc11
Size       : 3.9 M
Repo       : installed
From repo  : updates

In 'gstreamer-properties' everything works ok with settings: Plugin: v4l, Device: Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000.

If more info is needed please let me know.

(In reply to comment #7)
> In Fedora 11 this cheese bug still appears for me, however somewhat different
> Description of problem:
> Cheese starts up.
> Cheese displays a frozen web cam output.
> info cheese (yum info cheese):
> Name       : cheese
> Arch       : i586
> Version    : 2.26.3
> Release    : 1.fc11
> Size       : 3.9 M
> Repo       : installed
> From repo  : updates
> 
> In 'gstreamer-properties' everything works ok with settings: Plugin: v4l,
> Device: Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000.
> 
> If more info is needed please let me know.  

Hi,

Thanks for reporting this. I own a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 now myself these
days, and I've been able to reproduce this, it turns out this actually is a
gstreamer-plugins-good bug. I've filed a bug report with a patch upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591451

And I've fixed this in the rawhide / Fedora 12 gstreamer-plugins-good packages version 0.10.15-6 and later.

Thx f. sharing this!
---Michael