[Bug 377996] Re: Cheese crashes when recording video in Jaunty

[David Raluy]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: cheese
  
  Using Jaunty on a sony vaio laptop VGN-FE31H, cheese crashes when trying
  to record a video with the following message:
  
  "** Message: Error: Le flux ne contient aucune donnée.
  gsttypefindelement.c(786): gst_type_find_element_activate (): /GstPlayBin:play/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstTypeFindElement:typefind:
  Can't typefind empty stream
  
  
  ** (cheese:13098): WARNING **: could not generate thumbnail for /home/valerie/Vidéos/Webcam/2009-05-16-210337.ogv (video/ogg)
  "
  
  More specifically:
  - The video is displayed fine
  - When the record button is pressed, the image turn greenish and the program crashes.
  The only way to abort the program is to kill the process.
  
  I successfully could record video on the same laptop using wxCam with
  the type of image set to YUYV (in case it helps). Also gstreamer-
  properties doesn't return any error, and displays the video correctly if
  I use l4v2. If I try using l4v1 the image turns green and freezes.
  
  Here is the version of cheese used:
  apt-cache policy cheese
  cheese:
    Installé : 2.26.0-0ubuntu1
    Candidat : 2.26.0-0ubuntu1
   Table de version :
   *** 2.26.0-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  
- Finally I'd like to add that the exact same problem occuured to another person:
+ Finally I'd like to add that the exact same problem occured to another person:
  http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2644824
+ 
+ Update: I found that I could not record sound using the default app
+ bundled with jaunty (can't rememeber the name). After playing a while
+ with Alsa settings I finally got it working. One of the configuration
+ problems was that the recording source was set to PCM instead of the
+ internal microphone.
+ 
+ When that worked I found that I could record video with sound with no
+ problems using cheese. So it seems that Cheese did hang when it couldn't
+ capture the audio. This shouldn't happen, instead a warning could be
+ displayed saying that no audio will be captured and explaining how to
+ fix this.

** Tags added: alsa

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Cheese crashes when recording video in Jaunty
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