Bug 430977 - Ricoh webcam on Sony Vaio VGN-FE41Z is not working with gstreamer.
Summary: Ricoh webcam on Sony Vaio VGN-FE41Z is not working with gstreamer.
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gstreamer
Version: 8
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-30 21:41 UTC by Edward Karavakis
Modified: 2008-03-11 12:10 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: r5u870-0.11.0
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-03-11 12:10:18 UTC
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Description Edward Karavakis 2008-01-30 21:41:45 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071213 Fedora/2.0.0.10-3.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.10

Description of problem:
My webcam works with ekiga and skype but not with gstreamer and cheese... what's wrong? It doesn't work with gstreamer-properties when I hit the Test button, "Video for Linux (v4l): Could not negotiate format". Tested with the build-in web camera of Sony Vaio VGN-FE41Z on Fedora 8.
# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ca:1836 Ricoh Co., Ltd
# lsmod|grep r5u870
r5u870                 61508  0
video_buf              22469  1 r5u870
videodev               28097  1 r5u870
v4l2_common            18625  2 r5u870,videodev
v4l1_compat            15941  2 r5u870,videodev

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gstreamer-0.10.15-1.fc8

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
Run gstreamer-properties and press the test button

Actual Results:
Video for Linux (v4l): Could not negotiate format

Expected Results:
Should work (Ekiga and Skype works).

Additional info:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513280

Comment 1 Edward Karavakis 2008-03-11 12:08:29 UTC
i've downloaded and installed the latest r5u870 module (version 0.11.0
http://wiki.mediati.org/R5u870#Download ) and it works fine, no crashes
whatsoever.


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