Comments on: Running a webcam on Linux http://brajeshwar.com/2008/webcam-on-linux/ Brajeshwar is an ardent believer of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid), he envision pushing the technical envelop time and again for the betterment of commercial and practical applications. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:39:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Nick B http://brajeshwar.com/2008/webcam-on-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-25172 Nick B Thu, 28 May 2009 00:07:21 +0000 http://brajeshwar.com/?p=884#comment-25172 hahaha never mind i just found out how to do it. for those of you that had the same question as me, you go to applications and then to graphics and it will be there hahaha never mind i just found out how to do it. for those of you that had the same question as me, you go to applications and then to graphics and it will be there

]]> By: Nick B http://brajeshwar.com/2008/webcam-on-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-25171 Nick B Thu, 28 May 2009 00:03:43 +0000 http://brajeshwar.com/?p=884#comment-25171 i just installed "cheese" by typing in sudo apt-get install cheese in the terminal and it installed without any mistakes. The only problem is, I dont know how to run the application! How can I make it so i can take pics and vids after i installed the software???? Thank you to whoever answers my question. Nick B i just installed “cheese” by typing in sudo apt-get install cheese in the terminal and it installed without any mistakes. The only problem is, I dont know how to run the application! How can I make it so i can take pics and vids after i installed the software???? Thank you to whoever answers my question.
Nick B

]]> By: Hari Kiran http://brajeshwar.com/2008/webcam-on-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-24705 Hari Kiran Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:49:20 +0000 http://brajeshwar.com/?p=884#comment-24705 I have Lenovo Y510 notebook with a built in cam. I installed Cheese which put my webcam into operation, but the webcam doesn't work with gtalk or other such web applications. Please help, I don't wwant to go back to Windows... I have Lenovo Y510 notebook with a built in cam. I installed Cheese which put my webcam into operation, but the webcam doesn’t work with gtalk or other such web applications. Please help, I don’t wwant to go back to Windows…

]]> By: moises http://brajeshwar.com/2008/webcam-on-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-22647 moises Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:52:30 +0000 http://brajeshwar.com/?p=884#comment-22647 Hi, I was wondering I have cheese installed in my Ubuntu box and it works awsomely when recording videos, but I am having a challenge making it record the sound. Any idea how to find a fix around that. I really like cheese better then camerona. I just want to get it to record sound as well. What good is a video if you can't grasp the sound as well. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Until then I guess I will have to run audacity at the same time and somehow attach the sound to the video when I convert it from .ogg format to an .avi file. I just do not think that this sound be that much of a trouble. Hi, I was wondering I have cheese installed in my Ubuntu box and it works awsomely when recording videos, but I am having a challenge making it record the sound. Any idea how to find a fix around that. I really like cheese better then camerona. I just want to get it to record sound as well. What good is a video if you can’t grasp the sound as well. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Until then I guess I will have to run audacity at the same time and somehow attach the sound to the video when I convert it from .ogg format to an .avi file. I just do not think that this sound be that much of a trouble.

]]> By: Praval Singh http://brajeshwar.com/2008/webcam-on-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-22556 Praval Singh Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:35:19 +0000 http://brajeshwar.com/?p=884#comment-22556 @NickF: Nice to see you following up pretty quick! My point is that an application which works more often than not can't be made a benchmark for the rest. What works on Linux and what doesn't has been the biggest hurdle for the Linux community. Be it any device, you might have to take a heavy toil to make it run on Linux. I remember configuring my Wireless datacard for Ubuntu few months back. Painful it was! Regarding your "windows certified" webcam, I do not think they shall be "Linux non-certified" either! May be you need to meddle with it a bit to get things working, just as we do it very often for several apps. However, cheese is an awesome application and one of the few hits at Google summer of code. I hope that was a clear indication that it's known to work more often than not! With you facing specific problems, you need to look up to some dedicated forums/IRCs, for that matter! Best wishes. :) @NickF: Nice to see you following up pretty quick! My point is that an application which works more often than not can’t be made a benchmark for the rest. What works on Linux and what doesn’t has been the biggest hurdle for the Linux community. Be it any device, you might have to take a heavy toil to make it run on Linux. I remember configuring my Wireless datacard for Ubuntu few months back. Painful it was!

Regarding your “windows certified” webcam, I do not think they shall be “Linux non-certified” either! May be you need to meddle with it a bit to get things working, just as we do it very often for several apps.

However, cheese is an awesome application and one of the few hits at Google summer of code. I hope that was a clear indication that it’s known to work more often than not! With you facing specific problems, you need to look up to some dedicated forums/IRCs, for that matter! Best wishes. :)

]]> By: NickF http://brajeshwar.com/2008/webcam-on-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-22554 NickF Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:07:19 +0000 http://brajeshwar.com/?p=884#comment-22554 Thank you for your answer. My grip is with the fact that a good portion of webcams are still pretty much unsupported even by the latest kernel in distros. So Cheese won't help. Imagine a new user happy to see that he can use Cheese, and discover that his webcam isn't supported on Linux... It's not Cheese fault (and FOSS developers in general), but the impression from these users is that Cheese doesn't work. I know lot's of cases like these, in fact I own a "Windows certified" webcams that are not working on 8.04. Thank you for your answer. My grip is with the fact that a good portion of webcams are still pretty much unsupported even by the latest kernel in distros. So Cheese won’t help. Imagine a new user happy to see that he can use Cheese, and discover that his webcam isn’t supported on Linux… It’s not Cheese fault (and FOSS developers in general), but the impression from these users is that Cheese doesn’t work. I know lot’s of cases like these, in fact I own a “Windows certified” webcams that are not working on 8.04.

]]> By: Praval Singh http://brajeshwar.com/2008/webcam-on-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-22552 Praval Singh Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:48:47 +0000 http://brajeshwar.com/?p=884#comment-22552 @NickF: The article is written considering you've an upgraded kernel. Infact cheese is known to work on the previous kernel release too! Apart from that, I've mentioned "Cheese is already available on the Ubuntu 8.04 Repositories." Which is tried and tested. Also, you may check out the complete set of prerequisites to let yourself know what's needed and what's not: http://live.gnome.org/Cheese/FAQ#head-4f22b89894cd849cab949b97f7fb8a81a8ca0d98 I just did not put it within the article, to help prevent the new users from running away with the featured dependencies which are no matter a part of all latest distros, if you look out! Thanks for your valuable conflict :) @NickF: The article is written considering you’ve an upgraded kernel. Infact cheese is known to work on the previous kernel release too! Apart from that, I’ve mentioned “Cheese is already available on the Ubuntu 8.04 Repositories.” Which is tried and tested.

Also, you may check out the complete set of prerequisites to let yourself know what’s needed and what’s not: http://live.gnome.org/Cheese/FAQ#head-4f22b89894cd849cab949b97f7fb8a81a8ca0d98

I just did not put it within the article, to help prevent the new users from running away with the featured dependencies which are no matter a part of all latest distros, if you look out!

Thanks for your valuable conflict :)

]]> By: NickF http://brajeshwar.com/2008/webcam-on-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-22549 NickF Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:46:48 +0000 http://brajeshwar.com/?p=884#comment-22549 Adding "Cheese" won't help you running a webcam that is not supported by your Linux distribution. "Cheese" is simply an application to take pics and videos. It doesn't install any driver, so if none are provided in the Linux kernel, none will be available after you install "Cheese". Thus, the title and the first part of the article is quite misleading. Adding “Cheese” won’t help you running a webcam that is not supported by your Linux distribution. “Cheese” is simply an application to take pics and videos. It doesn’t install any driver, so if none are provided in the Linux kernel, none will be available after you install “Cheese”.

Thus, the title and the first part of the article is quite misleading.

]]> By: Must-Have WebCam App For Linux Users: Cheese » PCMech http://brajeshwar.com/2008/webcam-on-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-22526 Must-Have WebCam App For Linux Users: Cheese » PCMech Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:10:03 +0000 http://brajeshwar.com/?p=884#comment-22526 [...] photo manager you may have seen in Ubuntu) in it. You can read up on a quick tutorial about Cheese here. And if you’d like to give it a try, download it from their web [...] [...] photo manager you may have seen in Ubuntu) in it. You can read up on a quick tutorial about Cheese here. And if you’d like to give it a try, download it from their web [...]

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