Bug 835181

Summary:	No video from webcam in cheese
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Stuart D Gathman <stuart>
Component:	cheese	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	16	CC:	hdegoede, mclasen
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2012-07-13 13:06:19 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Stuart D Gathman 2012-06-25 18:45:36 UTC

Description of problem:
no video from webcam

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cheese-3.2.2-1.fc16.i686

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run cheese from menu
2.
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Actual results:
black video window

Expected results:
video from webcam

Additional info:
Other webcam applications, e.g. UCView, work perfectly.
lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:a133 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Gateway Webcam

Previously reported in bug#689995 for Fedora 15.

Comment 1 Stuart D Gathman 2012-06-25 18:47:38 UTC

User Accounts/Take a Photo is also broken, and apparently uses cheese-libs.

Comment 2 Hans de Goede 2012-06-25 18:57:53 UTC

A lot of work has gone into fixing various cheese bugs in F-17, any chance you can upgrade to Fedora-17 and give things a try there ?

Comment 3 Stuart D Gathman 2012-07-05 03:13:05 UTC

Planning to try it from a LiveCD - hope that's good enough.

Comment 4 Hans de Goede 2012-07-05 08:14:49 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Planning to try it from a LiveCD - hope that's good enough.

Yes that is fine, please do: 
yum update 'cheese*' 'gstreamer*'
in the live environment before testing, so that you get the latest versions.

Comment 5 Stuart D Gathman 2012-07-13 00:19:54 UTC

Installed F17 in a logical volume.  Cheese works fine after updating everything.  Sorry, forgot to test *before* updating.  But in any case, problem is fixed in updated F17.

Comment 6 Hans de Goede 2012-07-23 08:03:19 UTC

Thanks for testing this with Fedora-17!

Comment 7 Stuart D Gathman 2012-07-24 19:25:14 UTC

Oops, I tested the Micromedia Webcam on F17 - which already worked on F16.  I just noticed this bug report says Chicony web cam (which worked on F14) was broken on F16 (but worked in ucview).  I just now installed F17 on this computer and updated, and not only does the Chicony web cam not work in cheese, it doesn't work in ucview either!