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

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 13:34 +0000, John Frankish wrote:
> > > > -----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?

Try running:
gst-inspect-1.0 frei0r-filter-delay0r

> I don't see any options to build " frei0r-filter-delay0r" unless it is experimental?
>
> John