Re: Error message when running cheese

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Am 05.06.2010 14:28, schrieb lesliek ozemail com au:
> The message is: "libv4lconvert: Error decompressing JPEG: unknown huffman code:".
> Then follows a number (is that what it is?) like "0000ffff".

If I recall right its a bug in libv4l, it kicks in to decompress the jpeg only
capture from your webcam into yuv, but does not handle the particular stream
(can also happen if the stream is broken). As usual the output of v4l-info would
be nice to see.

Stefan

> 
> The message repeats for as long as cheese is running.
> 
> Is there something I can do to overcome the error? (I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 and the
> supplied version of cheese.)
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Leslie Katz 
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