Same issue here after upgrading to 21.04. Never had any issues before. cam is 
microsoft hd-3000
sudo apt install guvcview
and switch back to default resolution (in my case 720) did the trick for me as 
stated before. thanks btw.
after that cheese and other voip program work well

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  [Logitech C170] Cheese says "There was an error playing video from
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