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Which is the best webcam software under linux with more features......?

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 any software other than cheese?

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Charles Profitt (cprofitt) said : 		#1

The only software I am aware of is Cheese - that is in the repositories - give it a try and see if you like it.

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Omegamormegil (omegamormegil) said : 		#2

Cheese is nice and simple. There are more webcam apps available, but I haven't used anything other than cheese. Here is a list I obtained by typing "apt-cache search webcam" in a terminal (I removed a few that weren't relevant). You can install any of these apps in Synaptic Package Manager. I'd suggest trying out any that sound interesting.

came - Rewrite of the xawtv webcam app using imlib2
cameramonitor - Webcam monitoring in system tray
camgrab - A command line tool to download a single image from a webcam
camorama - gnome utility to view and save images from a webcam
camstream - collection of tools for webcams and other video-devices
camstream-doc - documentation for CamStream
cheese - A tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam
feh - imlib2 based image viewer
geekast - GNOME interface to peercast
geekast-binary - GNOME interface to peercast - binaries
gkrellkam - GKrellM plugin that displays a periodically updating image
gmotionlive - A simple multipart/x-mixed-replace viewer
gqcam - GTK Webcam control
luvcview - USB Video Class grabber
lynkeos.app - Tool to process planetary astronomical images for GNUstep
motion - V4L capture program supporting motion detection
peercast-geekast - GNOME interface to peercast - peercast-servent data files
pymissile - Control Marks and Spencer USB Missile Launcher
qc-usb-utils - utility programs for the QuickCam Express driver
setpwc - program to set and query settings of (mainly) Philips WebCams
telak - display remote or local pictures on your desktop
uvccapture - USB UVC Video Class snapshot software
vgrabbj - grabs a image from a camera and puts it in jpg/png format
webcam - image grabber and uploader
webcam-server - a tool to share webcam streaming in www-browser
webcamd - Capture images from video devices

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econsysqtcam (qtcam) said : 		#3

QtCAM - Rich UI based application for taking still capture and video recording for v4l2 supported cameras.

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