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[Ramsey Gurley <ramseygurley@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have the same problem using a Realtek cam on a 2015 Razer Blade 14".
When I start cheese, I get some half video for a couple seconds then it
dies with:

libv4l2: error got 4 consecutive frame decode errors, last error: v4l-
convert: libjpeg error: End Of Image

(cheese:14656): cheese-WARNING **: Internal data flow error.: gstbasesrc.c(2865): gst_base_src_loop (): /GstCameraBin:camerabin/GstWrapperCameraBinSrc:camera_source/GstBin:bin17/GstV4l2Src:video_source:
streaming task paused, reason error (-5)

The camera is:

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0bda:579f Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

I have more camera info here if someone is interested:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/662274/webcam-only-works-with-luvcview#

The camera works perfectly with luvcview. The camera fails with cheese
in default settings, but sorta works if I go into preferences and choose
1280x720 resolution for images and video and restart cheese. I still get
a horizonal line in the video near the bottom though. The camera fails
with the gumwrapper example in Firefox.

https://github.com/tagawa/GumWrapper

The camera looks scrambled on the same example in chromium, very similar
to if I had chosen 640x480 in cheese as the camera resolution. Using
ubuntu 14.04.3. Cheese fails with default kernel as well as 4.0 vivid
kernel.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1295247

Title:
  Cheese says "There was an error playing video from webcam"

Status in cheese package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in libjpeg-turbo package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Whenever I open Cheese in Ubuntu 14.04 beta 1 (Unity), my webcam's light once turns on, then it turns off and Cheese turns black, written "There was an error playing video from webcam". This never happened in any previous versions of Ubuntu. 
  The problem is reproducible.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: cheese 3.10.2-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-12.32-generic 3.13.4
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Mar 20 22:29:57 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-20 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140225)
  SourcePackage: cheese
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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