Cheese is an app that allows you to take photos and record videos from a webcam connected to a computer (or built into a laptop) on Linux.
Cheese allows you to apply 8 different effects to videos and photos. It's also possible to export to Flickr, use the photo as an account image. It's a simple and easy-to-use application that can be installed on any Linux distro.
Pictures:
- Output Image Format: JPEG
Video:
- Video codec: Theora
- Output Video format: OGV
- FPS: 30
Install Cheese on Linux
To install Cheese on Linux, you only need to enter one command, as Cheese is available in almost all repositories:
Ubuntu, Debian, Kali Linux:sudo apt-get install cheese
Fedora, CentOS:
sudo dnf install cheese
openSuse:
sudo zypper install cheese
ArchLinux or Manjaro:
sudo pacman -S cheese
Gentoo:
sudo emerge -a media-video/cheese
Cheese settings
Some users are having trouble accessing the settings for this app.
To open the Cheese settings, you have to click on the 3-dot menu in the upper right corner, and then click on the Preferences item in the drop-down menu.
Cheese saves all your photos in the following directory: /home/user/Pictures/Webcam/, videos: /home/user/Videos/Webcam/
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