I'd like to add that this problem also affects Debian (Jessie) 32bit. There were quite some kernel updates over the time without improvement. And that it worked with the same web came before.
Also that it behaves a little different here than described by others: Cheese comes up but all looks already grey in grey. I seem to be able take a photo (count down and the "flash" can be seen) but then the already mentioned error message "There was an error playing video from webcam" shows up. And no photo materializes anywhere. Otherwise the web cam works fine. lsusb says it's a ID 05c8:0348 Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd (Foxlink) My apritude log note April 2nd for the update which updated [UPGRADE] cheese:i386 3.10.1-1sid1 -> 3.10.1-1sid1+b1 [other things] [UPGRADE] libcheese-gtk23:i386 3.10.1-1sid1 -> 3.10.1-1sid1+b1 [UPGRADE] libcheese7:i386 3.10.1-1sid1 -> 3.10.1-1sid1+b1 -- 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/1295247 Title: Cheese says "There was an error playing video from webcam" Status in “cheese” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Whenever I open Cheese in Ubuntu 14.04 beta 1 (Unity), my webcam's light once turns on, then it turns off and Cheese turns black, written "There was an error playing video from webcam". This never happened in any previous versions of Ubuntu. The problem is reproducible. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: cheese 3.10.2-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-12.32-generic 3.13.4 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu Mar 20 22:29:57 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-20 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140225) SourcePackage: cheese UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cheese/+bug/1295247/+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
