can't apply any effect in cheese 3.8.3

[rpr nospam <rpr nospam gmail com>]

Hi!

I have an issue with cheese 3.8.3 on a system with Linux Mint 16 amd64 (which uses repositories for Ubuntu 13.10).

In cheese I see video stream from the camera and I can take photos but I can't activate any effect:

(1) click Effects to show the grid with effects

(2) click an effect (e.g. Flip) to apply it but nothing happens - the cheese doesn't return to normal view and the effect is not applied

If I run cheese from command line I can see the following warnings:
http://pastebin.com/ATVc0fQU

Is there anything I can do to make the effects work?

Packages:
ii  cheese  3.8.3-0ubuntu1
ii  cheese-common  3.8.3-0ubuntu1
ii  libcheese-gtk23:amd64  3.8.3-0ubuntu1
ii  libcheese7:amd64  3.8.3-0ubuntu1

ii  bluez-gstreamer  4.101-0ubuntu8b1
ii  gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10  0.10.36-1.2ubuntu1
ii  gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0  1.2.0-1
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa:amd64  0.10.36-1.1ubuntu1
ii  gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg:amd64  0.10.13-5
ii  gstreamer0.10-gconf:amd64  0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu3
ii  gstreamer0.10-nice:amd64  0.1.4-1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad:amd64  0.10.23-7ubuntu2
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse  0.10.21-1ubuntu1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:amd64  0.10.36-1.1ubuntu1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:i386  0.10.36-1.1ubuntu1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps  0.10.36-1.1ubuntu1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:amd64  0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu3
rc  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386  0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu2
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly:amd64  0.10.19-2
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:amd64  0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu3
ii  gstreamer0.10-tools  0.10.36-1.2ubuntu1
ii  gstreamer0.10-x:amd64  0.10.36-1.1ubuntu1
ii  gstreamer1.0-alsa:amd64  1.2.0-1ubuntu1
ii  gstreamer1.0-clutter  2.0.8-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-libav:amd64  1.0.10-1ubuntu1
ii  gstreamer1.0-nice:amd64  0.1.4-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64  1.2.0-3ubuntu5
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:amd64  1.2.0-1ubuntu1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps  1.2.0-1ubuntu1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:amd64  1.2.0-1ubuntu1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly:amd64  1.2.0-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64  1.2.0-1ubuntu1
ii  gstreamer1.0-tools  1.2.0-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-x:amd64  1.2.0-1ubuntu1
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-0:amd64  0.10.23-7ubuntu2
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0:amd64  1.2.0-3ubuntu5
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:amd64  0.10.36-1.1ubuntu1
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:i386  0.10.36-1.1ubuntu1
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:amd64  1.2.0-1ubuntu1
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0:amd64  1.2.0-1ubuntu1
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0:amd64  0.10.36-1.2ubuntu1
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0:i386  0.10.36-1.2ubuntu1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0:amd64  1.2.0-1
ii  libgstreamermm-0.10-2  0.10.11-0ubuntu1
ii  phonon-backend-gstreamer:amd64  4:4.7.0really4.6.3-0ubuntu2

-- rpr.