#9841 NORM 1.5-sof: XO 1.5 Camera fails in Gnome Cheese

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#9841: XO 1.5 Camera fails in Gnome Cheese
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           Reporter:  reuben        |       Owner:  dsd               
               Type:  defect        |      Status:  new               
           Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  1.5-software-later
          Component:  not assigned  |     Version:  not specified     
         Resolution:                |    Keywords:                    
        Next_action:  reproduce     |    Verified:  0                 
Deployment_affected:                |   Blockedby:                    
           Blocking:                |  
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Changes (by corbet):

 * cc: corbet (added)


Comment:

 I've spent a while messing with this.  The behavior is *very* strange, and
 I'm far from convinced that it's a camera problem.

 As has been noted, cheese will take pictures just fine.

 When it appears to be just sitting there doing nothing, it's actually
 running 100% CPU, polling and repeatedly trying to read from a socket on
 fd 3.  Meanwhile, the camera is streaming, but nobody's reading the
 frames, so they're getting dropped on the floor.

 Might this be a video output problem?  Some of the (minimal) information
 on the cheese site suggests that video output can be the source of a
 number of difficulties.

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