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In recent versions of Ubuntu and in some computers, Cheese keeps saying:

There was an error playing video from the webcam

A bug was reported in Launchpad, which has not been solved.

The external webcam in my system is Logitech C170.

Screenshot showcasing the issue

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For some reason, the default picture resolution in Cheese is set too high for some webcams.

  1. Open Preferences, and change these resolutions to the lowest.

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2.Now restart cheese.

3.The webcam should work. Keep increasing the resolution until it stops working again.

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