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Looking for video recorder applications in Ubuntu that can:

  • record videos from webcam.
  • can save for example last 15 minutes so I can review that recorded video; I don't want it to record all the time (hard disk will get full); only 15 minutes is enough.
Melebius
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Deniz
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You may use Cheese

It ships with Ubuntu by default.

If you don't see in your installed software list, you may install this from Ubuntu Software Center.

Nahid
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You can use vlc (sudo apt-get install vlc -y).

  1. Open vlc, then press Ctrl+R
  2. choose [capture device] and select your webcam
  3. Press [Convert/Save]
  4. Choose where to save the file and hit [start].
  5. When you are done press ■
fallingcats
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Guvcview

This is another good one:

sudo apt-get install guvcview
guvcview

It has more options than Cheese, but it is still easy to use. Also on Ubuntu 23.10, Cheese had a small issue that the audio was offset by about 0.5 from video, and that wasn't happening on guvcview.

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Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com
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Webcamoid worked for me easily. sudo apt-get install webcamoid, click record. (It worked fine with 3gp encapsulating H264, mpeg didn't work.)

I also tried cheese, which couldn't detect my webcam, and VLC, which detected my webcam under "Capture Devices" and sometimes under /dev/video*, but which I couldn't get to actually record anything (could be a technical or a UX problem).

mfse
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