v4l errors

[dedanna1029]

It appears I'm having issues on 64-bit Mageia 3 with an older ffmpeg bug that they say upstream was fixed four months ago. It's affecting anything to do with video - vlc, kopete, skype, totem, pretty much any program I use for or with video. The error is (over and over again, thousands of times):

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libv4l2: error dequeuing buf: Resource temporarily unavailab

According to this ticket, of which I don't understand much of, it's been fixed, but I don't know for sure if it's an ffmpeg thing, or a Mageia thing, or something else entirely. When I disable v4l entirely via xorg.conf, none of these things work at all.

To add insult to injury, this is the version of ffmpeg in the tainted repos (other than gstreamer-ffmpeg):

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[dedanna@dedanna ~]$ rpm -qa | grep ffmpeg
ffmpegthumbnailer-2.0.8-3.mga3
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg-0.10.13-11.mga3
ffmpeg-1.1.5-1.mga3.tainted
lib64ffmpegthumbnailer4-2.0.8-3.mga3
ffmpeg2theora-0.29-3.mga3
ffmpegthumbs-4.10.2-1.mga3
[dedanna@dedanna ~]$

Is there advice here on what I should do about this? I can't file a bug report against anything in tainted, can I?

Edit: I think for now though, even though there are programs I use that depend on it, I'm going to uninstall ffmpeg, reset any ~/.ffmpeg or related folders, reboot, and wait.

Thanks.