Ubuntu – UBUNTU 14.04 cheese booth not detect webcam

cheesevideowebcam

Cheese Booth shows an error:

There was an error playing video from the webcam

Cheese Booth

I test if webcam works fine or not by opening google hangout, its works fine.

Google Hangout Screenshot

Please tell, what is the issue in cheese booth.

Note: Sometimes the cheese booth works fine but most of time not

Best Answer

  1. Open Preferences, and change these resolutions to the lowest.

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2.Now restart cheese.

3.The webcam should work. Keep increasing the resolution until it stops working again.For many webcams, this limit is 640x480.

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