** 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): gst_type_find_element_activate (): /GstPlayBin:play/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstTypeFindElement:typefind: Can't typefind empty stream ** (cheese:13098): WARNING **: could not generate thumbnail for /home/valerie/Vidéos/Webcam/2009-05-16-210337.ogv (video/ogg) " More specifically: - The video is displayed fine - When the record button is pressed, the image turn greenish and the program crashes. The only way to abort the program is to kill the process. I successfully could record video on the same laptop using wxCam with the type of image set to YUYV (in case it helps). Also gstreamer- properties doesn't return any error, and displays the video correctly if I use l4v2. If I try using l4v1 the image turns green and freezes. Here is the version of cheese used: apt-cache policy cheese cheese: Installé : 2.26.0-0ubuntu1 Candidat : 2.26.0-0ubuntu1 Table de version : *** 2.26.0-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status - Finally I'd like to add that the exact same problem occuured to another person: + Finally I'd like to add that the exact same problem occured to another person: http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2644824 + + Update: I found that I could not record sound using the default app + bundled with jaunty (can't rememeber the name). After playing a while + with Alsa settings I finally got it working. One of the configuration + problems was that the recording source was set to PCM instead of the + internal microphone. + + When that worked I found that I could record video with sound with no + problems using cheese. So it seems that Cheese did hang when it couldn't + capture the audio. This shouldn't happen, instead a warning could be + displayed saying that no audio will be captured and explaining how to + fix this.
** Tags added: alsa -- Cheese crashes when recording video in Jaunty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/377996 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs