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Pank

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From: IT

Registered: 2009-06-13

Posts: 371

Webcam works only in some applications

Hi,

I'm having an issue with a friend's PC (Dell XPS 12).  His integrated webcam is not working with neither Cheese nor WebRTC via Firefox.  In Cheese, the rendered video is broken (black and green) and in Firefox no video is displayed.  However, when testing the "video pipe" via gstreamer-properties the video is displayed as it should be: no errors.  I believe both Firefox and Cheese use gstreamer so this is puzzling. . .  I've tried Arch, Ubuntu and Fedora images.  The problem persists across all of them and it's preventing my friend from ditching Windows.

Any ideas what could cause this error or how to change the configuration of gstreamer/webcam to try to resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance,
Rasmus

PS: Unfortunately, I don't have logs or outputs here.
PPS: I tried the LD_PREPATH suggestions from the wiki, but this did not work...

Edit: Notes

ID of webcam 0bda:5716
openSuse report, Fedora report, launchpad report.

Last edited by Pank (2015-01-27 17:31:27)

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Arch x64 on Thinkpad X200s/W530

Pank

Member

From: IT

Registered: 2009-06-13

Posts: 371

Re: Webcam works only in some applications

Anybody has any thoughts on this two month later?

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Arch x64 on Thinkpad X200s/W530

AElfwine

Member

Registered: 2011-07-12

Posts: 5

Re: Webcam works only in some applications

Cf https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1503299 for a workaround.