Webcam cheese [Solved]

[laminko]

Hi,

I installed a webcam application, cheese. When I open cheese, it shows the message "One or more needed GStreamer elements are missing: camerabin.". I tried to find modules, components and installed them. But, still getting this message. Help me.

Is KDE webcam app like cheese? If it is, pls link me.

Thanks,
LMK

[Fitzcarraldo]

That particular element is part of the package gst-plugins-bad. Have you got that package installed?

[BHReach]

That particular element is part of the package gst-plugins-bad. Have you got that package installed?

Shouldn't all programs pull in needed dependencies so you don't get those kind of errors?

[Fitzcarraldo]

Not in all cases. Plug-ins are a case in point: not everyone wants all the plug-ins; the user only installs the plug-ins (s)he wants/needs. It's the same in other distributions. GStreamer plug-ins are split across a lot of packages:

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$ eix -I --only-names gst-plugins
media-libs/gst-plugins-bad
media-libs/gst-plugins-base
media-libs/gst-plugins-good
media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly
media-plugins/gst-plugins-a52dec
media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa
media-plugins/gst-plugins-dts
media-plugins/gst-plugins-dv
media-plugins/gst-plugins-dvb
media-plugins/gst-plugins-dvdread
media-plugins/gst-plugins-faac
media-plugins/gst-plugins-faad
media-plugins/gst-plugins-ffmpeg
media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac
media-plugins/gst-plugins-gconf
media-plugins/gst-plugins-gio
media-plugins/gst-plugins-gl
media-plugins/gst-plugins-jpeg
media-plugins/gst-plugins-lame
media-plugins/gst-plugins-libpng
media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad
media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta
media-plugins/gst-plugins-mpeg2dec
media-plugins/gst-plugins-musepack
media-plugins/gst-plugins-ofa
media-plugins/gst-plugins-ogg
media-plugins/gst-plugins-pango
media-plugins/gst-plugins-pulse
media-plugins/gst-plugins-resindvd
media-plugins/gst-plugins-soup
media-plugins/gst-plugins-taglib
media-plugins/gst-plugins-theora
media-plugins/gst-plugins-v4l2
media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis
media-plugins/gst-plugins-x
media-plugins/gst-plugins-x264
media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvid
media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo

Compiz is another example where plug-ins are in more than one package and the user decides which plug-ins (s)he wants:

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$ eix -I --only-names compiz-plugins
x11-plugins/compiz-plugins-extra
x11-plugins/compiz-plugins-main
x11-plugins/compiz-plugins-unsupported

There are other examples.

[BHReach]

Thanks, that is a good explanation.

[laminko]

Thanks. Now I can use it.