Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others. It was written as part of Googles 2007 Summer of Code lead by Daniel G. Siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx.
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Open Source Webcamoid AlternativesScreenshot Capture Tools and other similar apps like Webcamoid
The best open source alternative to Webcamoid is Cheese. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Webcamoid and 13 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Webcamoid are GTK+ UVC Viewer, Kamoso, QtCAM and Photobooth.
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Webcamoid alternatives are mainly Camera Apps, but if you're looking for Screenshot Capture Tools or Screen Casting Tools you can filter on that. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Webcamoid.
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- 42 Cheese alternatives
22 GTK+ UVC Viewer alternativesguvcview is a video viewer and capture software for the linux UVC driver. It is based in luvcview (http://mxhaard.free.fr), but all controls are done with GTK, allowing for a more user friendly GUI.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Raspberry Pi
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
COSMIC Camera is a modern, easy-to-use camera application designed for the COSMIC desktop. Whether you need to snap a quick photo or record a video, COSMIC Camera provides a clean and intuitive interface that stays out of your way.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
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wxCam is a webcam application for linux. It supports video recording (in an avi uncompressed and Xvid format), snapshot taking, and some special commands for philips webcams, so you can also use the program for astronomy purposes.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
Krut is a screencast tool that is written in Java and well suited for making video tutorials (instructional videos) on most platforms. Krut records movie files, including sound, of selected parts of your screen. The files use the quicktime mov format.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
It's a standalone Python CLI and GUI (GTK, TK) and camera Viewer (SDL) to set the camera controls in Linux. It can set the V4L2 controls and it is extendable with the non standard controls. Currently it has a Logitech extension (LED mode, LED frequency, BRIO FoV, relative...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
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