I have been following this bug for a while now but want to add some information relevant to my system. I have a Razer Blade 14 (2014) and it has a 1920x1080 capable webcam. Information on the model is below:
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0bda:579f Realtek Semiconductor Corp. With Cheese however I have to reduce my camera's resolution to 176x144 to be able to get the camera to work at all without crashing the app. My behavior is the same as Ramsey Gurley's who posted earlier in this thread, but wanted to clarify that my webcam is in fact capable of higher resolutions, but I still run into the bug. -- 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: [Logitech C170] Cheese says "There was an error playing video from webcam" Status in cheese package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Whenever I open Cheese in Ubuntu 14.04 beta 1 (Unity), my external Logitech C170 webcam's light turns on once, 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. WORKAROUND: In Cheese preferences lower image resolution to 640x480. 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
