[Bug 303755] Re: Web cam won't work in Interpid, worked in previous Ubuntu versions

Craig Gilding slasherx2 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 21:43:56 UTC 2008


craig at craig-laptop:~/fprint/libfprint-0.0.6$ mplayer /dev/video0
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T5600  @ 1.83GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /dev/video0.
File not found: '/dev/video0'
Failed to open /dev/video0.


Exiting... (End of file)



craig at craig-laptop:~/fprint/libfprint-0.0.6$ gstreamer-properties
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'artsdsink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'esdsink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'glimagesink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'sdlvideosink'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'v4lmjpegsrc'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'qcamsrc'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Skipping unavailable plugin 'esdmon'
gstreamer-properties-Message: Error running pipeline 'Video for Linux (v4l)': Could not open device "/dev/video0" for reading and writing. [v4l_calls.c(179): gst_v4l_open (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstV4lSrc:v4lsrc3:
system error: Permission denied]


I've tried that last command before and got the same thing

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Web cam won't work in Interpid, worked in previous Ubuntu versions
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303755
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