AMcap Alternatives for Linux
AMcap is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Cheese, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to AMcap and 13 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to AMcap are Webcamoid, Shinobi, ZoneMinder and motionEyeOS.
AMcap alternatives are mainly Screen Recorders but may also be Screenshot Capture Tools or Video Streaming Apps. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of AMcap.
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- BSD
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.
Cheese vs AMcap opinions
AMcap is capable of capture from other types of video devices. Cheese only captures from webcam.
Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform webcam suite.
- Free Personal • Open Source
- Mac
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
Shinobi is an Open Source CCTV software written in Node.JS. Streams are img tags, but not MJPEG. Images are transferred through WebSocket. Files are saved in WebM videos, not JPEGs.
ZoneMinder is a free video camera security application suite, designed for low cost DIY video security including commercial or home CCTV, theft prevention and child or family member monitoring including nanny cam applications.
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- Banana Pi
- Raspberry Pi
- Orange Pi
- Odroid
motionEyeOS is a Linux distribution that turns a single-board computer into a video surveillance system. The OS is based on BuildRoot and uses motion as a backend and motionEye for the frontend.
Kamoso is a simple and friendly program to use your camera.
guvcview 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.
Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed; in other words, it can detect motion.
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.
Discontinued
Last update is from mid-2015.
A cross-platform open-source webcam viewer.
