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Cheese-like webcam app for KDE?

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http://forums.opensuse.org – Is it my imagination, or does KDE lack a native webcam application like Cheese? Windows XP has something, and Gnome has Cheese but the only thing I've found is Kopete and Skype. Skype doesn't recognize the webcam and when I try to set up the webcam in Kopete it locks the entire program and I have to force it to shutdown. Looking for something that allows you to view the webcam, and to take a "snapshot". Or am I missing some feature? (Distributions)

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Cheese-like webcam app for KDE? 3 years 24 weeks ago

Is it my imagination, or does KDE lack a native webcam application like Cheese?

Windows XP has something, and Gnome has Cheese but the only thing I've found is Kopete and Skype.

Skype doesn't recognize the webcam and when I try to set up the webcam in Kopete it locks the entire program and I have to force it to shutdown.

I have a Logitech C510 webcam connected to my desktop running 64-bit Ubuntu 11.10, but it doesn't seem to be working when I run Cheese and Skype. After doing some search, it seems this webcam should just work out of the box. However, Cheese and Skype don't seem to work with it.

Webcam problem 1 year 31 weeks ago

I have webcam Genius Eye 312, and i try to get it to work properly on Ubuntu 11.10. Cheese recognize webcam, but Skype don't, and that is most important, i need it for Skype and Gtalk. How to configure/fix that bug ? i tried with LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype - that work in 11.04 but here in 11.10... nope

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there are already some posts out there, but it seems to be a systemic problem. i though my internal webcam (gateway usb 2.0 webcam on /dev/video0) was the problem, but now i read that logitechs have got simmilar issues.

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[ubuntu] Webcam issue 1 year 19 weeks ago

Hi,

I have an Asus N61J running Ubuntu 11.10.

My webcam used to work perfectly with Cheese and Skype but today it stopped working. (I did not install drivers manually for it).

My webcam which is a USB PC Camera 2.0 is not working when I use Skype or Cheese but it works when I open it with VLC.

How can I make it to work properly?

HI,

using Xubuntu 12.04.01 since a few weeks I hit now the point to activate my webcam within skype. Unfortunately the webcam is neither working within Skype or within Cheese. I only see a black frame with no content. I guess the webcam isn't detected as a video device at all.

I have a Dell XPS M1530 that originally came with Ubuntu (back in 2006 or so). The Webcam has always worked out of the box in Cheese, Skype, etc. I don't use it regularly, but I had tested it before. I recently tried it after upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04, and I'm getting a black screen in every application I try.