Description of problem: When running cheese with my webcam, a window shows up with a black image and the text "There was an error playing video from the webcam". On the console: $ cheese (cheese:23388): cheese-WARNING **: Failed to allocate required memory.: gstv4l2src.c(478): gst_v4l2src_decide_allocation (): /GstCameraBin:camerabin/GstWrapperCameraBinSrc:camera_source/GstBin:bin35/GstV4l2Src:video_source: Buffer pool activation failed I have this UVC web camera: Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0ac8:3420 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. Venus USB2.0 Camera The camera works fine with luvcview. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.14.1-2.mga5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 0. Obtain a UVC camera 1. Just run cheese Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
The same for me. Skype video works fine.
CC: (none) => magnux77
I have the same bug with A4 tech PKS-635K. There is new version for cheese in upstream, it's time to update cheese.
CC: (none) => loginov_alex
CC: (none) => fundawang, olav
Bug is present for cheese-3.15.3.
With according https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728438 this bug is for gst-plugins-good (gstreamer1.0-plugins-good). There is new gst-plugins-good-1.4.5. We have 1.4.3 version.
I've just added 3 patches from upstream in v4l-utils, which fixes this same bug for me. Please, could you try to update to see if v4l-utils 1.4.0-4 (v4l-utils, lib(64)v4l0, ...) fixes this bug.
CC: (none) => lmenut
Hi Luc, Many thanks for your work. I tested v4l-utils-1.4.0-4.mga5 and libv4l0-1.4.0-4.mga5: this bug was fixed for my web camera A4 tech PKS-635K.
Updating just those packages did not seem to help. A full Cauldron update, however, seems to have indeed fixed this issue. Unless someone objects, I believe that we can close this bug :-)
Well, they can reopen if they want to :)
CC: (none) => mageiaStatus: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED