Bug 476341

I can reproduce this, the problem is not video, but rather sound related, as a workaround run gstreamer-properties and choose "silence" as sound plugin.

Changing component to gstreamer, if I runcheese like this:
cheese --gst-debug-level=3 --gst-debug-no-color &> log

I get log messages like these in the resulting log file:
0:00:20.269632600  5323 0x7f6a6809a2c0 WARN          baseaudiosrc gstbaseaudiosrc.c:804:gst_base_audio_src_create:<alsasrc0> create DISCONT of 740439 samples at sample 18909198
0:00:20.269918440  5323 0x7f6a6809a2c0 WARN          baseaudiosrc gstbaseaudiosrc.c:807:gst_base_audio_src_create:<alsasrc0> warning: Can't record audio fast enough
0:00:20.269936560  5323 0x7f6a6809a2c0 WARN          baseaudiosrc gstbaseaudiosrc.c:807:gst_base_audio_src_create:<alsasrc0> warning: dropped 740439 samples
0:00:20.269974920  5323 0x7f6a6809a2c0 INFO      GST_ERROR_SYSTEM gstelement.c:1675:gst_element_message_full:<alsasrc0> posting message: Can't record audio fast enough
0:00:20.270076600  5323 0x7f6a6809a2c0 INFO      GST_ERROR_SYSTEM gstelement.c:1698:gst_element_message_full:<alsasrc0> posted warning message: Can't record audio fast enough
0:00:20.270128200  5323 0x7f6a6809a2c0 WARN          baseaudiosrc gstbaseaudiosrc.c:804:gst_base_audio_src_create:<alsasrc0> create DISCONT of 7497 samples at sample 18917136
0:00:20.270147600  5323 0x7f6a6809a2c0 WARN          baseaudiosrc gstbaseaudiosrc.c:807:gst_base_audio_src_create:<alsasrc0> warning: Can't record audio fast enough
0:00:20.270160480  5323 0x7f6a6809a2c0 WARN          baseaudiosrc gstbaseaudiosrc.c:807:gst_base_audio_src_create:<alsasrc0> warning: dropped 7497 samples
0:00:20.270210000  5323 0x7f6a6809a2c0 INFO      GST_ERROR_SYSTEM gstelement.c:1675:gst_element_message_full:<alsasrc0> posting message: Can't record audio fast enough
0:00:20.270263200  5323 0x7f6a6809a2c0 INFO      GST_ERROR_SYSTEM gstelement.c:1698:gst_element_message_full:<alsasrc0> posted warning message: Can't record audio fast enough
0:00:20.270306120  5323 0x7f6a680aaff0 WARN             vorbisenc vorbisenc.c:1194:gst_vorbis_enc_chain:<audio_enc> Buffer is discontinuous, flushing encoder and restarting (Discont from 0:00:02.500000000 to 0:06:51.770000000)
0:00:20.309973040  5323 0x7f6a680a4780 INFO             GST_EVENT gstevent.c:779:gst_event_new_qos: creating qos proportion 20.828711, diff -23333333, timestamp 0:07:14.410000000
0:00:20.310466960  5323 0x7f6a680a4780 INFO              GST_PADS gstpad.c:3222:gst_pad_event_default_dispatch:<tee:src1> Sending event 0x1dd7980 (qos) to all internally linked pads
0:00:20.688872520  5323 0x7f6a6809a2c0 WARN          baseaudiosrc gstbaseaudiosrc.c:804:gst_base_audio_src_create:<alsasrc0> create DISCONT of 5213061 samples at sample 24130638
0:00:20.688957640  5323 0x7f6a6809a2c0 WARN          baseaudiosrc gstbaseaudiosrc.c:807:gst_base_audio_src_create:<alsasrc0> warning: Can't record audio fast enough
0:00:20.688971640  5323 0x7f6a6809a2c0 WARN          baseaudiosrc gstbaseaudiosrc.c:807:gst_base_audio_src_create:<alsasrc0> warning: dropped 5213061 samples

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