I also took a look at this. After adding a dependency on gstreamer1.0 -plugins-bad, my webcam still didn't turn on so no picture and no video. I got these errors on the command line:
(cheese:29911): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_request_pad: assertion `templ != NULL' failed (cheese:29911): GStreamer-WARNING **: Name 'video-encodebin' is not unique in bin 'camerabin', not adding (cheese:29911): GStreamer-WARNING **: Name 'videobin-filesink' is not unique in bin 'camerabin', not adding (cheese:29911): GStreamer-WARNING **: Name 'image-encodebin' is not unique in bin 'camerabin', not adding (cheese:29911): GStreamer-WARNING **: Name 'imagebin-filesink' is not unique in bin 'camerabin', not adding (cheese:29911): GStreamer-WARNING **: Name 'viewfinderbin-queue' is not unique in bin 'camerabin', not adding (cheese:29911): GStreamer-WARNING **: Name 'video-encodebin' is not unique in bin 'camerabin', not adding (cheese:29911): GStreamer-WARNING **: Name 'videobin-filesink' is not unique in bin 'camerabin', not adding (cheese:29911): GStreamer-WARNING **: Name 'image-encodebin' is not unique in bin 'camerabin', not adding (cheese:29911): GStreamer-WARNING **: Name 'imagebin-filesink' is not unique in bin 'camerabin', not adding (cheese:29911): GStreamer-WARNING **: Name 'viewfinderbin-queue' is not unique in bin 'camerabin', not adding -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1045539 Title: Update to 3.5.91 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cheese/+bug/1045539/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
