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[Otto Kekäläinen <otto@xxxxxxxx>]

I'm using Jaunty and I can confirm this issue. In Jaunty, the default
libv4l version is 0.5.8 (http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libv4l-0).

I installed version 0.5.98 from source as #13 suggests, but that didn't
work (picture still green). I also installed version 0.5.9-1 from Karmic
with Gdebi, but that didn't work either (both Cheese and Ekiga crash
with the error message "memory override").

Finally I got it working by installing version 0.5.99 from source. Here
is how:

1. download and unpack http://people.atrpms.net/~hdegoede/libv4l-0.5.99.tar.gz on your computer
2. install build dependencies with command: 
  sudo apt-get build-dep libv4l-0
3. go to correct directory: 
  cd libv4l-0.5.99/
4. compile: 
  make
5. install: 
  sudo make install PREFIX=/usr
6. shut down the computer completely and then turn it on again for to camera to reset

Now it works correctly for me!

I guess this bug will be automatically fixed for Karmic if it will
contain the libv4l version 0.5.99

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iSight camera images have green/purple tint
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345080
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Status in Cheese Camera Application: New
Status in GStreamer Plugins (Good): Invalid
Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in “cheese” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
Status in “libv4l” package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
Binary package hint: cheese

The picture in cheese is green/purple.
Cheese doesn't set the right colorspace format.

distro: jaunty
version: cheese 2.25.92-0ubuntu1

device:
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 05ac:8501 Apple, Inc. Built-in iSight [Micron]
(uvcvideo)

wrong green/purple picture:
$ gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink

right picture with normal colors:
$ gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src ! video/x-raw-yuv,format=\(fourcc\)UYVY,width=640,height=480 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! ximagesink