[Debian-eeepc-devel] Should Cheese be able to record video on a Asus 701G?

[Santi Béjar]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Paul Menzel <
paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, den 06.01.2011, 14:05 +1300 schrieb Glyn Webster:
> > On pressing Record the capture window turns black, shows a single frame
> > a few seconds later, and then back again. The saved OGV file looks the
> > same. The sound gets recorded.
> >
> > I've seen exactly the same problem reported on message boards for
> > various EEE PC Ubuntu remixes. Some of the replies suggest that the Asus
> > 701's processor is too slow to encode video in real time. Is that true?
>
> Could you submit a report to the Debian BTS, please? I guess Cheese is
> using GStreamer and so you should try some low level GStreamer commands
> (I do not know) to test this. I hope the maintainer will tell you. Or
> you should find some example on the WWW.
>

You should test with gstreamer-properties (program to test and set the
default sinks and sources for gnome) from the gnome-media package.

HTH,
Santi
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