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CPUnltd

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[SOLVED] Cheese missing gstreamer plugin: videobalance

after a recent system update, cheese no longer runs properly... it will load, but have a big error icon in the middle (similar to the Wrong Way street sign) with this written above:

One or more needed GStreamer elements are missing: videobalance.

Please refer to the help for further information.

thing is, most menus are greyed out (including the preferences option) and help is missing... no one else has posted about this here (searched for videobalance) so I'm wondering if this is a unique problem (once again) that I am experiencing...  Any insight would be appreciated...

Last edited by CPUnltd (2010-06-26 16:42:13)

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GogglesGuy

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Re: [SOLVED] Cheese missing gstreamer plugin: videobalance

Same problem here...

CPUnltd

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Re: [SOLVED] Cheese missing gstreamer plugin: videobalance

Removing ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.x86_64.bin is the "fix"

...found it with a short google search... thing is, would this be a gstreamer bug or a cheese bug?  I've never had to do that before, so I'm not sure what this would fall under...

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gnu_D

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Re: [SOLVED] Cheese missing gstreamer plugin: videobalance

It's working here too thanks to that workaround, I got I686 architecture by the way.
Here is a BASH script, based on that workaround:

#!/bin/bash
# Removing the current blob registry, or whatever it is.
rm ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.*.bin

# Uncomment if you don't like the old backups too.
#rm ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.*.bin.tmp*

When you run cheese again, this debug message will be printed:

(gst-plugin-scanner:16822): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstice.so': libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
sys:1: Warning: specified instance size for type `GstMsGSMPayload' is smaller than the parent type's `GstBaseRTPPayload' instance size

(gst-plugin-scanner:16822): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_register: assertion `g_type_is_a (type, GST_TYPE_ELEMENT)' failed

The next time Cheese is loaded it will be clear.

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CPUnltd

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Re: [SOLVED] Cheese missing gstreamer plugin: videobalance

nice bit of coding, my friend... haven't utilized it myself, but I'd drop it on the guys in charge of Arch (since it's in the official repos) and/or the people who make Cheese for the rest of us to play with... if nothing else, it can start ideas on how to permenantly fix this upstream...

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gnu_D

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Re: [SOLVED] Cheese missing gstreamer plugin: videobalance

nice bit of coding, my friend... haven't utilized it myself, but I'd drop it on the guys in charge of Arch (since it's in the official repos) and/or the people who make Cheese for the rest of us to play with... if nothing else, it can start ideas on how to permenantly fix this upstream...

Longest there is a workaround, I don't mind it, but it's a good thing to have a permanent fix .

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