I tried Cheese but t says "There was an error playing video from the webcam" (on the Take a Photo page). My webcam works on Skype, but nothing here. I also tried "shotwell" but only the background is in focus, not my face.
I'd like to take a photo with my webcam.
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I went into the "ubuntu software' and searched for 'cheese'. There were 2 of them. I noted the one I installed and uninstalled it and then installed the other version. That one hooked up with my USB camera. Different version.
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The first thing that I would try is reinstalling cheese. the way that you can do this is by using the command sudo apt-get --reinstall install cheese. If that does not fix your problem, I would suggest using a different app like OBS. Here is a Tutorial on how to take a screenshot/picture with obs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4InPqYNyO18 (I did not make this video, I just found it). There are also many different webcam apps for Linux that you can find.
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