I gad almost the same problem with HP probook 450 G1 built in webcam, but I saw the image and only when i was about to take a picture (countdown went to zero and flash appeared) I got the message about video not being able to play, but then I followed ramseygurley: the camera fails with cheese in default settings, but sorta works if I go into preferences and choose 1280x720 resolution. And I switched resolution to 640x480, restarted, switched back to 1280x720 and again restarted. Now I am able to take "selfies"
-- 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 Status in libjpeg-turbo 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
