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Cheese is a cheesy program to take pictures and videos from your web cam.

The project also provides some graphical effects in order to please the users play instinct.

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Anything better than Cheese for video capture?

I need to record some video from my webcam, and while Cheese works, it lacks settings, and only outputs the webm format that is full of stutters, etc. Can't seem to find any alternative...
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UBUNTU 14.04 cheese booth not detect webcam

Cheese Booth shows an error: There was an error playing video from the webcam I test if webcam works fine or not by opening google hangout, its works fine. Please tell, what is the issue in cheese booth. Note: Sometimes the cheese booth works…
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Cheese says "There was an error playing video from the webcam"

In recent versions of Ubuntu and in some computers, Cheese keeps saying: There was an error playing video from the webcam A bug was reported in Launchpad, which has not been solved. The external webcam in my system is Logitech C170.
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How to fix "error playing video from the webcam" in Cheese app in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?

On upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS from 20.04 LTS, the inbuilt Cheese application is not working properly. On running it, it displays a blank black screen. When I capture a picture or video it also shows this error-message and gets stuck: There was an…
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Webcam not working on Ubuntu 20.04 after recent kernel update

My builtin webcam stopped working after a kernel update issued after 22 April 2020 . Before this date i was able to take pictures on cheese and video call etc , and for a while i didn't use my webcam until yesterday i noticed that my webcam is…
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Webcam and Cheese: Unbelievably slow

I have a machine with 4 GIG of RAM on a 64 bit computer. Yet, Cheese is unbelievably slow in recording videos. To my surprise, even YouTube records videos faster than Cheese. What would be an apt alternative for video recording on Ubuntu systems?
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A lot of buffers are being dropped

(cheese:6560): cheese-WARNING **: A lot of buffers are being dropped.: gstbasesink.c(2854): gst_base_sink_is_too_late (): /GstCameraBin:camerabin/GstViewfinderBin:vf-bin/ClutterGstVideoSink:cluttergstvideosink0: There may be a timestamping problem,…
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Alternatives to Cheese

I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.04 and I find Cheese very basic, are there any alternatives (I have already read this Anything better than Cheese for video capture?, however that is only really on video recording, and I would like a…
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How to install webcam (camera) driver on Ubuntu 17.04? (No device found)

My laptop can't detect my webcam anymore, so I can't take pictures or see myself from the webcam. I was using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and everything was OK..., until I decided to install 17.04. After installing 17.04, I was faced with this problem. In…
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Where's the settings/preferences in Cheese photo booth?

My built in camera doesn't work well, it's damage and have crappy and blurry result, so I use a Logitech webcam. Since I can switch the cams in Skype, I think the same option should be there for Cheese. I have seen some threads saying to change the…
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Cheese config file location

I would like to do a fresh install of cheese. I have purge-removed the package and re-installed but when I open up cheese it has my old settings. Where are the cheese config files located? I would like to remove the cheese config file and I have…
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Are there any webcam programs that save the date in the meta data?

I currently use Cheese, but it isn't really compatible with Shotwell because it doesn't save the date in the meta data - only the file name. I could run a command to get the file name and put it into the meta data, but I wonder if there is another…
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Where does CHEESE store its images?

I have taken some pictures using CHEESE, but now I cannot locate those images, so I can do nothing with them. I can't even delete them for the CHEESE GUI does not allow me to do anything with the image (although it does display it). I read here on…
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Video recording in cheese is slow

cheese records at painful fps. video recording is really slow in cheese almost unusable. How can I increase the fps for cheese. I have HCL laptop with built in 1.3 MP camera 2.47 GHz i3 processor with 2 GB RAM. running maverick 32 bit. I installed…
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Bad quality in Cheese Webcam Booth Software

I installed Cheese Webcam Booth from Software Center to 11.10, Cheese worked beautiful in 11.04 but in .10 the image is so bad (I've put a picture of it), I like the functionalities of it and dont want to use any other webcam softwares, is there a…
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