Try having the following script running on a terminal window before you
launch cheese.
while true; do echo > /dev/null; done
If your computer is anything like mine, cheese will behave much better
when that script is running.
Without that script running, initializing the camera takes so long that
For those having problems with cheese and webcams, you might want to try
running the following script on a terminal window:
while true; do echo > /dev/null; done
Doing that eliminates the hang ups and super slow frame rate problems I
was having with cheese and my two different webcams. It appears
I tried the following command on a terminal window:
gst-launch v4l2src ! xvimagesink
gst-launch produces the same extremely slow frame rate as cheese unless I run
the script I mentioned above.
That suggest to me there is something at the gstreamer/v4l2 level that is
causing this problem whenev
I have a similar problem but on much faster hardware, a 2.4GHz Intel
dual core2 laptop with a 1.3MP built-in camera. I run ubuntu 8.10 with
all the latest updates. Many seconds by between video frames.
Today I discovered a way to work around this problem. What I do is run
this script on a terminal
