Resolved: cheese failing silently

[Michael Butash]

Wow, right on - first time ive actually seen cheese work for me!  Thanks
for that tidbit, worked quite well here.  I'd long ago given up on
it.  :)

Now I might follow up with why the camera in my m1330 dell will only
work in the lowest graphics mode...  meh, always something.

-mb


On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 23:42 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> Short Answer: I had to set gstreamer properties to use X Window System
> (No XV) as the plugin for Default Video Output.  This may be another
> effect of the Intel Video drivers Jaunty seems to have trouble with.
> 
> Long Version:
> ============
> I had decided the X-Windows call failure was probably associated with
> the opening of the sub-window to display the picture from the web cam
> based on the GUI that did appear and the timing.  I was going to go
> get the source code and maybe try yo find it and maybe even do the
> compile-debug cycle as it seems a lot of folks have this or a similar
> problem.  In the process I found:
> 
> http://live.gnome.org/Cheese/FAQ
> 
> Since cheese worked on ubuntu 8.10 with the Asus eeePC 1000 but had
> slow and choppy video like described in the #1 question I thought to
> look into that answer.  Running gstreamer-properties from the command
> line brought up the Multimedia Systems Selector GUI mentioned in
> question #2.  Clicking the Test button on the Default Output section
> of the Video tab, which had been set to Autodetect, caused the GUI to
> disappear and control returned to the terminal AND display in the
> terminal virtually the same error message I got from using strace on
> cheese.
> 
> From there it was a simple matter to determine that AutoDetect was
> using the "X Window System (X11/XShm/Xv)" value and it was failing.
> Once I changed it to use "X Window System (No Xv)", cheese began
> working again albeit with slow and choppy video.  This may be another
> effect of the Intel Video drivers Jaunty seems to have trouble with.
> 
> -- 
> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
> 
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