Bug#763838: libopencv-highgui2.4: Webcam capture failures

[Richard Allen]

Package: libopencv-highgui2.4
Version: 2.4.9.1+dfsg-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

It appears webcam capture is broken. I tried a PS3 Eye(RGB/YUV)
and a PS2 Eyetoy(JPG). On AMD64 both result in garbage. On another
jessie box, this time i386, both cameras crash.

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   * What led up to the situation?
       Trying to use example APIs for webcam capture. I tried
       using C/C++/Python, same results on each.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
       I tried switching from i386 to AMD64. On AMD64 the capture
       runs, but all frames are garbage.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
       AMD64 - video frames contain pixel representation of 
           some sort of linker linkage list? Lines like:
           7f5b7acdc000-7f5b7ace5000 r-xp 00000000 08:21 2235125                    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrandr.so.2.2.0

        i386 - crashes on first frame

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
       I expected to see video frames, no crashes.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (1001, 'stable'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libopencv-highgui2.4 depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.12.0-1
ii  libavcodec56              6:11-1
ii  libavformat56             6:11-1
ii  libavutil54               6:11-1
ii  libc6                     2.19-11
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.16-5
ii  libdc1394-22              2.2.2-3
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.5.2-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.1-15
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.30.8-1+b1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  10.2.6-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.42.0-1
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]    9.0.0-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.24-1
ii  libgtkglext1              1.2.0-3.2
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.9-1
ii  libilmbase6               1.0.1-6.1
ii  libjasper1                1.900.1-debian1-2+b1
ii  libjpeg8                  8d1-1
ii  libopencv-core2.4         2.4.9.1+dfsg-1
ii  libopencv-imgproc2.4      2.4.9.1+dfsg-1
ii  libopenexr6               1.6.1-8
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.36.7-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0       1.36.7-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0         1.36.7-1
ii  libpangox-1.0-0           0.0.2-5
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.50-2
ii  libsm6                    2:1.2.2-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.1-15
ii  libswscale3               6:11-1
ii  libtbb2                   4.2~20140122-1.1
ii  libtiff5                  4.0.3-10
ii  libv4l-0                  1.4.0-1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.2-1
ii  libxmu6                   2:1.1.2-1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.4-1
ii  multiarch-support         2.19-11
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-2

libopencv-highgui2.4 recommends no packages.

libopencv-highgui2.4 suggests no packages.

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