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On upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS from 20.04 LTS, the inbuilt Cheese application is not working properly.

On running it, it displays a blank black screen. When I capture a picture or video it also shows this error-message and gets stuck:

There was an error playing video from the webcam

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What could be the reason? How could I fix this?

mpboden
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Vam
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In Cheese menu (the hamburger menu with 3 bars top-right), go to Preferences, then change the device webcam. That fixed issue on my side.

screenshot of Cheese's Preferences dialog

hc_dev
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Teodor
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Just a couple of suggestions It may or may not work:

First: Try lowering the settings like the photo and video resolution It might solve your problem. OR, try to increase the image/video resolution : this solved the problem in my case ( DELL Latitude E6130)

Second: have you install codecs yet? if not, just run

sudo add-apt-repository multiverse
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Third: If it still doesn't work try installing kamoso. as an alternative camera app

sudo apt install kamoso
OlivieR91
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Mun Hong Chan
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I was having problems with cheese crashing on a fresh install of ubuntu 22.04 and discovered at ubuntu software center that there is a snap store's cheese. Removed the distribution one and tried the snap store one and it worked

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