I have the same issues, although Cheese doesnt get choppy for me until after a few minutes of recording approximately 2 and half minutes. Alot of times if I record longer than that it will also, not properly create the temp video.
I only use 640x480 mode. This is my v4l-info ### v4l2 device info [/dev/video0] ### general info VIDIOC_QUERYCAP driver : "uvcvideo" card : "CNF7047" bus_info : "usb-0000:00:04.1-2" version : 0.1.0 capabilities : 0x4000001 [VIDEO_CAPTURE,STREAMING] standards inputs VIDIOC_ENUMINPUT(0) index : 0 name : "Camera 1" type : CAMERA audioset : 0 tuner : 0 std : 0x0 [] status : 0x0 [] video capture VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT(0,VIDEO_CAPTURE) index : 0 type : VIDEO_CAPTURE flags : 0 description : "YUV 4:2:2 (YUYV)" pixelformat : 0x56595559 [YUYV] VIDIOC_G_FMT(VIDEO_CAPTURE) type : VIDEO_CAPTURE fmt.pix.width : 640 fmt.pix.height : 480 fmt.pix.pixelformat : 0x56595559 [YUYV] fmt.pix.field : NONE fmt.pix.bytesperline : 1280 fmt.pix.sizeimage : 614400 fmt.pix.colorspace : SRGB fmt.pix.priv : 0 controls VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL(BASE+0) id : 9963776 type : INTEGER name : "Brightness" minimum : -64 maximum : 64 step : 1 default_value : -20 flags : 0 VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL(BASE+1) id : 9963777 type : INTEGER name : "Contrast" minimum : 0 maximum : 95 step : 1 default_value : 35 flags : 0 VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL(BASE+2) id : 9963778 type : INTEGER name : "Saturation" minimum : 0 maximum : 128 step : 1 default_value : 90 flags : 0 VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL(BASE+3) id : 9963779 type : INTEGER name : "Hue" minimum : -40 maximum : 40 step : 1 default_value : -10 flags : 0 ### video4linux device info [/dev/video0] ### general info VIDIOCGCAP name : "CNF7047" type : 0x1 [CAPTURE] channels : 1 audios : 0 maxwidth : 640 maxheight : 480 minwidth : 48 minheight : 32 channels VIDIOCGCHAN(0) channel : 0 name : "Camera 1" tuners : 0 flags : 0x0 [] type : CAMERA norm : 0 tuner ioctl VIDIOCGTUNER: Invalid argument audio ioctl VIDIOCGAUDIO: Invalid argument picture VIDIOCGPICT brightness : 22528 hue : 24576 colour : 46079 contrast : 24144 whiteness : 4287 depth : 16 palette : YUYV buffer ioctl VIDIOCGFBUF: Invalid argument window VIDIOCGWIN x : 0 y : 0 width : 640 height : 480 chromakey : 0 flags : 0 -- video mode (very) choppy when used in higher resulutions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/590107 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