Bug#517245: cheese: i can't see any image, but saving images and videos works

[Santi Béjar]

Hi,

> i use kde and an acer crystal eye webcam (it uses uvcvideo module to work);
> it is the integrated webcam in my notebook, an acer aspire 5520g.
> if i start cheese i can't see any image from camera, but light, that indicates that the  > webcam works, turns on;
> saving images or videos works.
> kopete works with this camera.

Do you have gstreamer0.10-x installed? Can you check with
'gstreamer-properties' if the video input/output works? It is in the
gnome-media package.

HTH,
Santi