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[Ēriks Karls <inpoc1@xxxxxxxxx>]

I gad almost the same problem with HP probook 450 G1 built in webcam, but I saw the image and only when 
i was about to take a picture (countdown went to zero and flash appeared) I got the message about video not being able to play, but then I followed ramseygurley: the camera fails with cheese in default settings, but sorta works if I go into preferences and choose 1280x720 resolution. 
And  I switched resolution to 640x480, restarted, switched back to 1280x720 and again restarted. Now I am able to take "selfies"

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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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