Comment 48 for bug 290506
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| Francisco Borges (francisco-borges) wrote Re: [Bug 290506] Re: cheese doesn't show v4l2 video output and disables output on gstreamer-based apps ran afterwards | #48 |
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Filippo Argiolas <email address hidden>wrote:
> zoomy942, the relevant part of that thread (the one about uvcvideo driver)
> suggests to install latest trunk from uvcvideo svn.
> That's the latest version before uvcvideo was included in mainline kernel
> (2.27) and probably the same (or almost the same) one included in Hardy.
>
> If it fixes the issue it's just one more evidence that Cheese is not
> involved at all with this thing and it is a driver/kernel fault only.
> There were many changes in webcam drivers with 2.27 kernels, it is likely
> that some regression went in too.
>
It may be the case that Cheese makes correct use of the API, in a way most
other applications don't use the API, and that uvcvideo breaks when used
this way.
But in any case, this is very much Cheese related in the sense that the
camera works with kopete, skype, and gstreamer (before starting Cheese) but
not with Cheese.
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Francisco