The problem isn't worsened for me, but it's not any better, either. I'll
put some details here, and also update BugTracker.
Here's the lsusb output:
$ lsusb | grep -i 'camera'
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia Sonix USB 2.0 Camera
For what it's worth, I have tried installing the Microdia drivers (found
them on an Ubuntu forum, had to compile them and install a kernel module),
but they did not work. At this point, I cannot confirm if those drivers
were official or not, or what their version number was.
I can, however, confirm that I am running Ubuntu Lucid for 32-bit PCs on my
Acer Aspire 5534 laptop computer, and Cheese 2.30.1 is installed on top of
that. Here is the flow of my testing and the results:
1. Start Cheese. It launches fine without the X restart you described.
The video stream is picked up just fine in the preview window.
2. The program defaults to non-motion photographs, so I click Take a
Photo. The program hangs for about 2 seconds, then crashes. When I check
the directory where these photos would be saved, the images are there, and
their filenames properly reflect the time and date the photo was taken. I
can still relaunch Cheese without any problems, the video preview still
works just fine, and the bar at the bottom with the picture thumbnails now
reflects the photo taken along with the previous crash.
3. Switch to Video mode. Click on Start Recording. The preview window
that works so well when NOT recording goes black for a few seconds, then
returns with a sort of split-screen/wrap-around type image (see attached
screenshot). The image contains the correct contents, but it is split and
wrapped, and the program locks. The window frame goes gray as unresponsive
apps in Gnome do, and it remains that way no matter how long I wait. I must
eventually force close Cheese. The output directory gains a properly-named
OGV file where the video would have gone, but the file is zero bytes long,
containing no data.
4. Switch to Multiple Photos Mode. Click Take Multiple Photos. This
feature works perfectly. Cheese does not crash here like it does in
regular, single Photo Mode. I even get the nifty flash effect where the
screen goes to a semi-transparent white color. No issues here at all.
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Andrew Aylett <and...@aylett.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm afraid it's worse -- trying to start up cheese in Lucid will cause
> the X server to restart before any video is displayed. I'm not sure
> whether it's the same bug or a different one; if it's different then it
> obviously prevents me from testing this one :).
>
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> Video recording hangs cheese, disables camera
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414451
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it and say, "Well, to each his own, everyone has to work out his own
strategy for human fulfillment." It's just not true. There are people who
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