As you can see in the headline, I have reported this upstream to the original developers of cheese.
When you follow the link to the upstream bugtracker, there you can find a CC List: Add me to CC list at the bottom of the page. Please attach you there to follow the discussion with the original developers. It would be helpfull to get a stacktrace there. I could not in moment, so when somebody would like... ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #687106 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687106 ** Also affects: cheese via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687106 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cheese in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1044711 Title: cheese is not able to record video - frozen first picture Status in Cheese Camera Application: Unknown Status in “cheese” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Cheese is able to start a video recording, but the video picture got frozen immediatelly. Stopping recording of the video triggers no further action in cheese. The video keeps frozen on the first picture of the recording. The video could not be saved in any way. In the webcam folder /home/user/video/webcam/ is only a open video stream of .webm format. Steps to reproduce: 1.Start cheese 2.Choose the video recording mode. 3.Start recording of the video 4.See the video freez imdediatelly 5.Stop recording after a while 6.See that cheese is not able to do any further actions. Also saving is not possible. 7.Open your filebrowser and lokk into /home/user/video/webcam and see the still open video stream in .webm format with 0 bytes. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: cheese 3.5.5-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Sep 1 15:38:10 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/cheese InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120722) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no username) LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: cheese UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cheese/+bug/1044711/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
