[Bug 377996] [NEW] Cheese crashes when recording video in Jaunty

[David Raluy]

Public bug reported:

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 l4v2 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:
http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2644824

** Affects: cheese (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: cheese jaunty webcam

** 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 l4v2 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:
+ http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2644824

** Tags added: cheese jaunty webcam

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