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I also have the problem that my camera is not working, Cheese definitely recognizes the camera. It is a USB camera. Selecting Preferences in Cheese shows the camera, but Cheese reports "there was an error playing video from the camera".

This happened since I upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04. Please see the details below.

xxxxx@yyy-pc:$ sudo v4l2-ctl --list-devices 
[sudo] password for steph: 
1080P Webcam: 1080P 
Webcam (usb-0000:05:00.0-1.1): /dev/video0 /dev/video1 /dev/media0   

xxxxx@yyy-pc:$ sudo dmesg | grep -i webcam  
[ 1.653943] usb 5-1.1: Product: 1080P Webcam 
[ 3.937147] usb 5-1.1: Found UVC 1.00 device 1080P Webcam (1bcf:28c4)

xxxxx@yyy-pc:$ lsb_release -crid 
No LSB modules are available. 
Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: 
Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS Release: 24.04 
Codename: noble
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Since you're on 24.04, and Cheese might work like Camera / snapshot... might be Pipewire not having all its dependencies, as said in my answer to my own problem, maybe try installing libcamera-ipa and pipewire-libcamera then:

systemctl --user restart wireplumber.service

then try the camera again.

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