Cheese claims it cannot use camera
When I start Cheese, it comes with a black screen and claims that There was an error playing video from the webcam, see
The camera LED comes on at first, indicating that the camera has switched on, but it will go off after a couple of seconds.
The camera however can be normally used in Firefox at webcamtoy.com.
- Cheese 44.0
- Fedora 38 (full upgrade)
- Linux thinkpad 6.2.14-300.fc38.x86_64 #1 (moved) SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon May 1 00:55:28 UTC 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux
There has been an error reported in the journalctl:
kvě 09 10:48:36 thinkpad gnome-shell[1882]: meta_window_set_stack_position_no_sync: assertion 'window->stack_position >= 0' failed
kvě 09 10:48:36 thinkpad cheese[3156]: Internal data stream error.: ../libs/gst/base/gstbasesrc.c(3132): gst_base_src_loop (): /GstCameraBin:camerabin/GstWrapperCameraBinSrc:camera_source/GstBin:bin35/GstPipeWireSrc:pipewiresrc1:
streaming stopped, reason not-negotiated (-4)
kvě 09 10:48:37 thinkpad gnome-character[2814]: JS LOG: Characters Application exiting
Edited by Lukas Ruzicka