Cheese and issues with permissions after update

Captain Rage · 2013-12-17 01:48:05

I'm not sure whether it's a bug or something else that happened. All I know is that Cheese was working fine before and now it doesn't work.

Cheese was working fine, then it stopped working after the gstreamer / gst-plugins-* packages were upgraded (it would seem). It starts as intended, and the webcam captures a picture and shows it on the screen, but when trying to record a video or take a photo it says "There was an error playing a video from the webcam." and the picture disappears. When running from a terminal this appears:

"[martin@Wisp ~]$ cheese

(cheese:811): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: value "5.000000" of type 'gdouble' is invalid or out of range for property 'delaytime' of type 'gdouble'

(cheese:811): cheese-WARNING **: Error while writing to file "/2013-12-17-012604.jpg".: gstmultifilesink.c(653): gst_multi_file_sink_render (): /GstCameraBin:camerabin/GstMultiFileSink:imagebin-filesink:
Permission denied"

The webcam is working fine in Skype / VLC, both for running and for writing files (in VLC it is no problem to write a file).
Adding my user to the 'video' group made no difference.

This is why I filed a bug report:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/38170?project=1&cat[0]=2&string=cheese

Any suggestions on how to proceed?

uberscientist · 2013-12-23 23:48:14

Thanks for the fix in the bug report!
Here's a step-by-step for anyone else having issues:

1. Open dconf-editor
2. search for both 'photo-path' and 'video-path'
3. assign values for directories that you have permissions to write to, I used '/home/nak/Pictures/webcam' for both of them

smsware · 2014-01-23 05:14:26

Thank you!

jasonwryan · 2014-01-23 05:16:51

Please don't power post: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … mpty_Posts

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#1 2013-12-17 01:48:05

Cheese and issues with permissions after update

#2 2013-12-23 23:48:14

Re: Cheese and issues with permissions after update

#3 2014-01-23 05:14:26

Re: Cheese and issues with permissions after update

#4 2014-01-23 05:16:51

Re: Cheese and issues with permissions after update

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