Bug 600248

Summary: cheese doesnt work, missing GStreamer element videobalance
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jiri Machala <george.machala+rhbugzilla>
Component: cheeseAssignee: Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 13CC: alan.lake, blu3ck, bugzilla.redhat.com, hdegoede, kidnapper, kparal, mclasen, soul.revisited, steve8988, tomspur
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Description Jiri Machala 2010-06-04 09:35:10 UTC
Description of problem: cheese doesnt work, error message: "One or more needed GStreamer elements are missing: videobalance." 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.30.1-1.fc13

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install cheese
2. start cheese
  
Actual results:
Cheese opens with error message(in description) in the upper part of window and doesnt work


Expected results:
it should work or offer installation of missing plugin

Additional info:
$ yum list installed gstreamer* cheese*
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
cheese.x86_64                                     2.30.1-1.fc13                  @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201005130101.x86_64
cheese-libs.x86_64                                2.30.1-1.fc13                  @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201005130101.x86_64
gstreamer.x86_64                                  0.10.29-1.fc13                 @updates                                      
gstreamer-ffmpeg.x86_64                           0.10.10-1.fc13                 @rpmfusion-free                               
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free.x86_64                 0.10.19-1.fc13                 @updates                                      
gstreamer-plugins-base.x86_64                     0.10.29-1.fc13                 @updates                                      
gstreamer-plugins-good.x86_64                     0.10.23-1.fc13                 @updates                                      
gstreamer-python.x86_64                           0.10.16-1.fc12                 @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201005130101.x86_64
gstreamer-rtsp.x86_64                             0.10.5-1.fc13                  @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201005130101.x86_64
gstreamer-tools.x86_64                            0.10.29-1.fc13                 @updates

Comment 1 Kamil Páral 2010-06-14 10:29:30 UTC
Confirmed.

Comment 2 Stephen So 2010-06-17 04:36:02 UTC
I deleted my .gstreamer directory and that fixed the problem.

Comment 3 Daryll 2010-06-18 02:34:24 UTC
I had the same problem. This worked fine in Fedora 12. I removed the .gstreamer-0.10 directory and it now works under Fedora-13.

Comment 4 Kamil Páral 2010-06-21 09:26:43 UTC
Yes, deleting ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.x86_64.bin resolved the issue. I have the file backed up, is it needed for bug fixing? Is this cheese bug or gstreamer bug?

Comment 5 bugzilla.redhat.com 2010-06-22 14:56:51 UTC
Removing ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.x86_64.bin also worked for me.  I knew it was not the camera on my macbook pro because it worked under fedora 12 and also under fedora 13 with flash and skype.

Comment 6 Major Péter 2010-06-29 09:32:07 UTC
The workaround also worked for me with Inspiron 1525 and Fedora 13 64 bit.

Comment 7 Thomas Spura 2010-07-04 20:29:07 UTC
*** Bug 611270 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Thomas Spura 2010-07-04 20:32:59 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Yes, deleting ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.x86_64.bin resolved the issue. I have
> the file backed up, is it needed for bug fixing? Is this cheese bug or
> gstreamer bug?    

This seems to be a gstreamer bug, because it also happened in whaawmp now.
(I can't reproduce this issue in F-13 with this snipped in ipython:

import gst
a = gst.element_factory_make('videobalance')

but that should crash in the same backtrace like in bug #611270.)

Comment 9 Juan A. Valencia Texocotitla 2010-09-03 02:18:08 UTC
deleting that directory works for me too in Fedora 13 on my Dell Studio 1555... Thanks!!!

Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2011-06-02 12:05:40 UTC
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Comment 11 Bug Zapper 2011-06-27 17:30:24 UTC
Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is 
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