this could be related to this faq entry: http://live.gnome.org/Cheese/FAQ#head-6abe3dfb895f8bfc5d2fd41f5ce502edfc6ff738 anyway, you should upgrade to cheese 2.24 and probably update your gstreamer plugins too. that should solve this problem. daniel On Fr, 2008-11-07 at 23:36 +0530, nishith datta wrote: > hi all, > I am using fedora8 on a acer laptop with a usb webcam. I am using the > uvcvideo driver for it and luvcview application is working fine. > However, when I start cheese , it says iunable to find webcam.Sorry! > on the terminal a whole lot of message flows out :- > [root localhost ~]# cheese > ** Message: Probing the webcam, please ignore the following, not > applicabable tries > ** Message: Error running pipeline 'v4l2src ! fakesink': Could not get > enough buffers from device '/dev/video0'. [v4l2src_calls.c(1034): > gst_v4l2src_capture_init (): /pipeline0/v4l2src0: > we received 0 from device '/dev/video0', we want at least 2] > ** Message: test pipeline for v4l2src failed: > [v4l2src ! fakesink]: Could not get enough buffers from device '/dev/video0'. > ** Message: Error running pipeline 'v4lsrc ! > video/x-raw-rgb,width=640,height=480 ! fakesink': Could not get/set > settings from/on resource. [v4l_calls.c(409): gst_v4l_set_chan_norm > (): /pipeline1/v4lsrc0: > Error setting the channel/norm settings: Invalid argument] > ** Message: test pipeline for v4lsrc failed: > [v4lsrc ! video/x-raw-rgb,width=640,height=480 ! fakesink]: Could not > get/set settings from/on resource. > ** Message: Error running pipeline 'v4lsrc ! > video/x-raw-yuv,width=640,height=480 ! fakesink': Could not get/set > settings from/on resource. [v4l_calls.c(409): gst_v4l_set_chan_norm > (): /pipeline2/v4lsrc1: > Error setting the channel/norm settings: Invalid argument] > ** Message: test pipeline for v4lsrc failed: > [v4lsrc ! video/x-raw-yuv,width=640,height=480 ! fakesink]: Could not > get/set settings from/on resource. > ** Message: Error running pipeline 'v4lsrc ! > video/x-raw-rgb,width=320,height=240 ! fakesink': Could not get/set > settings from/on resource. [v4l_calls.c(409): gst_v4l_set_chan_norm > (): /pipeline3/v4lsrc2: > Error setting the channel/norm settings: Invalid argument] > ** Message: test pipeline for v4lsrc failed: > [v4lsrc ! video/x-raw-rgb,width=320,height=240 ! fakesink]: Could not > get/set settings from/on resource. > ** Message: Error running pipeline 'v4lsrc ! > video/x-raw-rgb,width=1280,height=960 ! fakesink': Could not get/set > settings from/on resource. [v4l_calls.c(409): gst_v4l_set_chan_norm > (): /pipeline4/v4lsrc3: > Error setting the channel/norm settings: Invalid argument] > ** Message: test pipeline for v4lsrc failed: > [v4lsrc ! video/x-raw-rgb,width=1280,height=960 ! fakesink]: Could not > get/set settings from/on resource. > ** Message: Error running pipeline 'v4lsrc ! > video/x-raw-rgb,width=174,height=144 ! fakesink': Could not get/set > settings from/on resource. [v4l_calls.c(409): gst_v4l_set_chan_norm > (): /pipeline5/v4lsrc4: > Error setting the channel/norm settings: Invalid argument] > ** Message: test pipeline for v4lsrc failed: > [v4lsrc ! video/x-raw-rgb,width=174,height=144 ! fakesink]: Could not > get/set settings from/on resource. > ** Message: Error running pipeline 'v4lsrc ! > video/x-raw-rgb,width=160,height=120 ! fakesink': Could not get/set > settings from/on resource. [v4l_calls.c(409): gst_v4l_set_chan_norm > (): /pipeline6/v4lsrc5: > Error setting the channel/norm settings: Invalid argument] > ** Message: test pipeline for v4lsrc failed: > [v4lsrc ! video/x-raw-rgb,width=160,height=120 ! fakesink]: Could not > get/set settings from/on resource. > ** Message: Error running pipeline 'v4lsrc ! fakesink': Could not > get/set settings from/on resource. [v4l_calls.c(409): > gst_v4l_set_chan_norm (): /pipeline7/v4lsrc6: > Error setting the channel/norm settings: Invalid argument] > ** Message: test pipeline for v4lsrc failed: > [v4lsrc ! fakesink]: Could not get/set settings from/on resource. > using photo source: videotestsrc > using video source: videotestsrc > > Now, I did a bit of reading around and assume that the problem is with > the gstreamer-plugins-0.10.6 which is loaded on my machine. Will a > upgrade to later version of plugin help and is that the real cause of > the problem ? > Any help to solve the problem could be useful....thanks > nishith > _______________________________________________ > Cheese-list mailing list > Cheese-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/cheese-list -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons ================================================ daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gmail com> http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel gnupg key id: 0x6EEC9E62 fingerprint: DE5B 1F64 9034 1FB6 E120 DE10 268D AFD5 6EEC 9E62 encrypted email preferred
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