Bug#763291: cheese only displays "There was an error playing video from the webcam"

[Jean-Marc]

Package: cheese
Version: 3.12.2-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I tried to start up <cheese> and I just got a complete grayed-out interface just displaying "There was an error playing video from the webcam".

Starting <cheese> from a terminal gives this message:
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$ cheese

(cheese:2726): cheese-WARNING **: Failed to allocate required memory.: gstv4l2src.c(478): gst_v4l2src_decide_allocation (): /GstCameraBin:camerabin/GstWrapperCameraBinSrc:camera_source/GstBin:bin28/GstV4l2Src:video_source:
Buffer pool activation failed

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I do not know if it matters: I use a Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate STX (ID 046d:08ad).

Jean-Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cheese depends on:
ii  cheese-common          3.12.2-1
ii  gnome-video-effects    0.4.1-2
ii  libc6                  2.19-11
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0     0.30-2.1
ii  libcheese-gtk23        3.12.2-1
ii  libcheese7             3.12.2-1
ii  libclutter-1.0-0       1.18.4-2
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0   1.6.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0     2.30.8-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.40.0-5
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-10  3.14.0-1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0      1.4.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0             3.12.2-3+b1

Versions of packages cheese recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme    3.12.0-1
ii  gvfs                1.20.3-1
ii  hicolor-icon-theme  0.13-1
ii  nautilus-sendto     3.8.1-1+b1
ii  yelp                3.12.0-1

Versions of packages cheese suggests:
pn  gnome-video-effects-frei0r  <none>

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