RE: cheese-3.10.2 does not detect webcam but guvcview does

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>]

> > > > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > > > From: Bastien Nocera [mailto:hadess hadess net]
> > > > > > > > Sent: Monday, 26 May, 2014 14:15
> > > > > > > > To: John Frankish
> > > > > > > > Cc: cheese-list gnome org
> > > > > > > > Subject: Re: cheese-3.10.2 does not detect webcam but
> > > > > > > > guvcview does
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On Sat, 2014-05-24 at 15:07 +0000, John Frankish wrote:
> > > > > > > > > #6  0x000000000040f0d3 in
> > > > > > > > > cheese_effects_manager_add_effect (effect=<optimized out>, name=<optimized out>, 
> > > > > > > > > self=0x1ed5610)
> > > > > > > > >     at src/cheese-effects-manager.c:222
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Still missing important debug information I'm afraid.
> > > > > > > 'seems the trick is to compile with "-ggdb"
> > > > > > It's trying to build the Time delay effect which needs the
> > > > > > "frei0r-filter- delay0r" plugin (which lives in the
> > > > > > gst-plugins-bad package). Cheese should probably do better at avoiding crashing when an effect 
> > > > > > isn't available.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Could you please re-test with cheese 3.12.x, and file a bug if
> > > > > > the problem persists?
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > >
> > > > > Hmm - assuming we're referring to /usr/local/lib/gstreamer-
> > > > 1.0/libgstfrei0r.so, it is present and correct...
> > > >
> > > > Are you sure that your GStreamer installation knows to go get the
> > > > plugin there?
> >
> > Some progress being made at last
> >
> > I don't see it written anywhere, but the gstreamer frei0r plugin requires
> frei0r-plugins in order to work.
>
> Are you filing bugs about this, or are we just debugging your hand-made
> distribution?

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730786

> There's a test call cheese-test-monitor in the cheese sources which you can
> use to debug your problem. The device monitor code uses udev to
> enumerate devices. Attach the output of "udevadm info --export-db" so we
> can see if the camera is detected properly.

cheese-test-monitor doesn't do anything (cheese-test-camera seg faults).

Udev output attached

Thanks
John

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