[SOLVED] Cheese missing gstreamer plugin: videobalance

Question

after a recent system update, cheese no longer runs properly... it will load, but have a big error icon in the middle (similar to the Wrong Way street sign) with this written above:
One or more needed GStreamer elements are missing: videobalance.
Please refer to the help for further information.
thing is, most menus are greyed out (including the preferences option) and help is missing... no one else has posted about this here (searched for videobalance) so I'm wondering if this is a unique problem (once again) that I am experiencing...  Any insight would be appreciated...
Last edited by CPUnltd (2010-06-26 16:42:13)

Answer 1

It's working here too thanks to that workaround, I got I686 architecture by the way.
Here is a BASH script, based on that workaround:
#!/bin/bash
# Removing the current blob registry, or whatever it is.
rm ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.*.bin
# Uncomment if you don't like the old backups too.
#rm ~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.*.bin.tmp*
When you run cheese again, this debug message will be printed:
(gst-plugin-scanner:16822): GStreamer-WARNING **: Failed to load plugin '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstice.so': libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
sys:1: Warning: specified instance size for type `GstMsGSMPayload' is smaller than the parent type's `GstBaseRTPPayload' instance size
(gst-plugin-scanner:16822): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_register: assertion `g_type_is_a (type, GST_TYPE_ELEMENT)' failed
The next time Cheese is loaded it will be clear.