I can confirm that also in my situation (8.04 with an Acer CrystalEye Webcam) an update certainly broke something. Same issue you reported.
** Changed in: cheese (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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fast video recording with flickering audio
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294345
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