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[corrado venturini <corradoventu@xxxxxxxxx>]

cheese same problem changing webcam resolution with internal webcam on HP620 and external philips vesta on ubuntu 14.04 amd 64.
works fine with 14.10 and 15.04 installed on same hardware different partitions.
note in 14.04 cheese preference lists many photo and video resolutions from 1600x1200 to 176x144 while in 14.10 and 15.04 resolutions listed are only these supported by the webcam.

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

Status in cheese 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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