Bug#517245: cheese: i can't see any image, but saving images and videos works

[Santi Béjar]

[could you also reply to the bug?, thanks]

2009/3/24 Luigi Curzi <luigi_curzi at yahoo.it>:
>
> --- Mar 24/3/09, Santi Béjar <santi at agolina.net> ha scritto:
>
>> Da: Santi Béjar <santi at agolina.net>
>> Oggetto: Re: cheese: i can't see any image, but saving images and videos works
>> A: "luigi" <luigi_curzi at yahoo.it>, 517245 at bugs.debian.org
>> Data: Martedì 24 marzo 2009, 00:09
>> Hi,
>>
>> > i use kde and an acer crystal eye webcam (it uses
>> uvcvideo module to work);
>> > it is the integrated webcam in my notebook, an acer
>> aspire 5520g.
>> > if i start cheese i can't see any image from
>> camera, but light, that indicates that the  > webcam
>> works, turns on;
>> > saving images or videos works.
>> > kopete works with this camera.
>>
>> Do you have gstreamer0.10-x installed? Can you check with
>> 'gstreamer-properties' if the video input/output
>> works? It is in the
>> gnome-media package.
>
> output of gstreamer-properties:
> salvatore at coccionepc:~$ gstreamer-properties
> gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'artsdsink'
> gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'esdsink'
> gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'pulsesink'
> gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'glimagesink'
> gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'sdlvideosink'
> gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'ximagesink'
> gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'xvimagesink'

I think this means that you don't have gstreamer0.10-x installed. Can
you try to install it first? (The gstreamer0.10-x dependency is
already added to the svn version, waiting an upload).

> gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'v4lmjpegsrc'
> gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'qcamsrc'
> gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'esdmon'
> gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'pulsesrc'
>
> in gstreamer-properties audio works, and i can set "acer crystaleye webcam" as video input (plug-in: "video for linux 2 (v4l2)"); but if i click "test" i don't see anything, only a mini window shows that the test is running, and i don't receive any error.

Could you try first if the video output works?

HTH,
Santi