Description of problem: I have a black screen with cheese. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cheese-2.91.91.1-1.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch cheese and the screen is always black even with webcam on. Actual results: Black screen Expected results: See webcam image Additional info: Smolt: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_4156d467-6a42-4980-9f54-6e2e956b44b8 The webcam works in F14 with cheese and skype.
I'm also not having any luck with cheese and the webcam on my Acer Aspire 5553G laptop. I can record video with ffmpeg, but cheese remains black. Running from a terminal, I get the following output: $ cheese Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module" (cheese:5310): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to make the stage window 0x3c00028 the current GLX drawable ** (cheese:5310): WARNING **: Internal GStreamer error: clock problem. Please file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer. The webcam shows up in lsusb as: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0402:9665 ALi Corp.
After updating to the latest cheese packages from updates-testing, cheese is able to access my webcam and take pictures and video.
Same here, the update has fixed it but now all pictures are in black and white... No effects are selected in my profile.
I believe the b/w problem was fixed in the latest cheese update.
In sense it is fixed but as I said, now the webcam is black and white only. Do I open a new bug ?
Go to Edit->Preferences and check the sliders under Image Properties. The Saturation setting was turned all the way down on my install.
FYI I just installed F15-beta on a new Dell Latitude E6320 - which has a built-in camera. I had the same issue - the camera worked under Windows7 but was black and white under F15. After finding this bug report, I fiddled the saturation as above said and lo! it fixed the problem However, expecting every camera owner using Fedora to do that is a bit of a stretch. Shouldn't this is "just magic" and just work? uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD (1bcf:2803)
For me the saturation issue was the good trick. It was set to zero...
(In reply to comment #7) > FYI I just installed F15-beta on a new Dell Latitude E6320 - which has a > built-in camera. I had the same issue - the camera worked under Windows7 but > was black and white under F15. After finding this bug report, I fiddled the > saturation as above said and lo! it fixed the problem > > However, expecting every camera owner using Fedora to do that is a bit of a > stretch. Shouldn't this is "just magic" and just work? > > uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD (1bcf:2803) The saturation having a wrong default value is a bug in cheese-3.0.0 which has been fixed in cheese-3.0.1, which is available in updates-testing since today. So this should be fixed for F-15 final.
Hmmm. Before I started cheese for the first time, I was trying to add a photo of myself to my username - via the top right-hand corner leading to the "User Account" manager. Anyway, when I chose "take a photo" that came up black and white too... Now that I've fiddled with cheese, it is available in colour too So, does "User Manager" use cheese too? They have some API in common that's for sure. Also, I just reduced the saturation to zero (ie made cheese B&W) and "User Manager" is B&W again too - so there's definitely a link
(In reply to comment #10) > Hmmm. Before I started cheese for the first time, I was trying to add a photo > of myself to my username - via the top right-hand corner leading to the "User > Account" manager. Anyway, when I chose "take a photo" that came up black and > white too... Now that I've fiddled with cheese, it is available in colour too > > So, does "User Manager" use cheese too? They have some API in common that's for > sure. Also, I just reduced the saturation to zero (ie made cheese B&W) and > "User Manager" is B&W again too - so there's definitely a link Yes, the User Manager photo functionality uses cheese-libs.
Still broken in Fedora 16. Opened new bug#835181