Here's my solution posted on bug #981803;
This is how I fixed my poor FPS in cheese, on Ubuntu 12.04; 1) sudo apt-get install guvcview; 2) Under image controls look for the drop-down menu item "Exposure, Auto" and select "Manual Mode"; "TAB" select the next option!!! 3) You should "TAB" select to the slider bar beneath "Exposure, Auto" labeled "Exposure (Absolute) - use your right arrow key to bump up the selection. Mine was set to "156" so I knocked it up to "157" then down to "155", and back again to "156". Now my exposure it fine, and I get a solid 30fps at 1280x720. I'm not sure how or why this works, but it seems the exposure it set way too high or something. Anyway, just quit out of guvcview and launch cheese. Everything should be working now. Or at least it did for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cheese in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385344 Title: Netbooks- Cheese video recording is laggy at higher video resolutions Status in Cheese Camera Application: Fix Released Status in OEM Priority Project: Invalid Status in “cheese” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Build Version/Date: unr-jaunty 20090609 Environment used for testing: Dell Inspiron Mini 1011 Summary: When recording a video with cheese, the resulting video is extremely choppy, to the point where it drops more frames than it captures. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install OS from USB 2. Go through config 3. Open cheese, record a video 4. Notice very laggy video Expected result: Video is watchable Actual result: Video unwatchable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cheese/+bug/385344/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp