Well, I installed Karmic koala (9.10) since, and it workes out of the
box, as well as skype. So I don't know what fixed the problem, only that
the problem is no longer in 9.10.
--
Cheese crashes when recording video in Jaunty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377996
You received this bug
The symptoms I had where different but seem to be related to the same cause. In
my case I fixed the bug fiddling around with the alsa settings until it no
longer hanged. Now it works properly. Your problem seems to be audio related as
well.
What I did to fond what to fix was that I installed a
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: cheese
Using Jaunty on a sony vaio laptop VGN-FE31H, cheese crashes when trying
to record a video with the following message:
** Message: Error: Le flux ne contient aucune donnée.
gsttypefindelement.c(786):
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: cheese
Using Jaunty on a sony vaio laptop VGN-FE31H, cheese crashes when trying
to record a video with the following message:
** Message: Error: Le flux ne contient aucune donnée.
gsttypefindelement.c(786): gst_type_find_element_activate ():
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: cheese
Using Jaunty on a sony vaio laptop VGN-FE31H, cheese crashes when trying
to record a video with the following message:
** Message: Error: Le flux ne contient aucune donnée.
gsttypefindelement.c(786):
