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** Changed in: camera-app
       Status: In Progress => Confirmed

** Changed in: camera-app (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Confirmed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299073

Title:
  [desktop] Video recording is not working

Status in camera-app:
  Confirmed
Status in camera-app package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in cheese package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in guvcview package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in qtmultimedia-opensource-src package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Video recording used to work fine on my trusty desktop, but now it
  freezes the application and video does not record.

  Steps to reproduce:

  1) Start camera-app in desktop mode ($ DESKTOP_MODE=1 camera-app)
  2) Switch to video
  3) Press the red button

  Expected behaviour:

  The app records  video correctly

  Actual behaviour:

  The videocamera freezes (still image) and video is not recorded
  The following error shows in the terminal:

  libv4l2: error setting pixformat: Device or resource busy
  CameraBin error: "Device '/dev/video0' is busy" 
  CameraBin error: "Could not negotiate format" 

  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: camera-app 2.9.1+14.04.20140307-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-18.38-generic 3.13.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-18-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Mar 28 16:32:32 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-06-17 (283 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  SourcePackage: camera-app
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-01-20 (66 days ago)

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