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Same problem in my Dell 7520: after taking a photo the message "There
was an error playing video from the webcam" appear over a black
background.

$ cheese 
libv4l2: error setting pixformat: Device or resource busy

(cheese:12775): cheese-WARNING **: Device '/dev/video0' is busy: gstv4l2object.c(2838): gst_v4l2_object_set_format (): /GstCameraBin:camerabin/GstWrapperCameraBinSrc:camera_source/GstBin:bin18/GstV4l2Src:video_source:
Call to S_FMT failed for YU12 @ 1280x720: Device or resource busy

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Title:
  There was an error playing video from the webcam after taking photo.

Status in cheese package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Cheese fails to capture video from the webcam after taking a photo.
  Running Cheese from the terminal prompts the following error:

  libv4l2: error setting pixformat: Device or resource busy

  (cheese:5170): cheese-WARNING **: Device '/dev/video0' is busy: gstv4l2object.c(2838): gst_v4l2_object_set_format (): /GstCameraBin:camerabin/GstWrapperCameraBinSrc:camera_source/GstBin:bin18/GstV4l2Src:video_source:
  Call to S_FMT failed for YU12 @ 640x480: Device or resource busy

  
  My camera needs the r5u87x firmware from this PPA: 
  https://launchpad.net/~r5u87x-loader/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: cheese 3.14.1-2ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-15.15-generic 3.19.3
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-15-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Tue Apr 28 20:20:38 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-28 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release i386 (20150422)
  SourcePackage: cheese
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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