How can I take webcam snapshots?

[olembe]

The title says it all! Is there a program which will let me take a snapshot with my webcam, without installing all the gnome depencies that Cheese requires? (I'm trying to keep this machine more-or-less pure KDE)

[GreyGeek]

Re: How can I take webcam snapshots?

If that doesn't work for you then there is WebKam:
http://code.google.com/p/webkam-kde4/



EDIT:
The following is my first suggestion, but I'm not sure it will take a webcam snapshot. It is a VERY NEAT graphic tool, however, and I plan to install it.

It's not in the repository yet, but if you have the skills to install it you might consider
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show...?content=71320

The home page is here, from which you can download a tar file: http://fotowall.googlecode.com

Here is a video showing how to do it:
http://fotowall.googlecode.com/files/FotoWall.avi

[Rog131]

Re: How can I take webcam snapshots?

About the Fotowall

Yes, with the Fotowall you could take snapshots: Add Webcam and stop the picture (Still Picture).

The Fotowall (for the Official repositories) is at the > REVU - A collaborative Ubuntu package review tool.

Binaries could be found from the PPA repositories > Show PPAs matching: fotowall.

[josefko]

Re: How can I take webcam snapshots?

I have installed only a few very useful GTK programs and now I found in Synaptic that I have a lot of Cheese dependencies installed anyway. If I were you I wouldn't hesitate to install Cheese if I get used to it.

[GreyGeek]

Re: How can I take webcam snapshots?

I agree, josefko.

I recently did a scan of my Jaunty system to find out how many files are dependent on GTK2+. At that time, on my system, there were 1,689 files dependent on the GTK2+ API. There are some important apps that use the GTK2+ API, including FireFox, ThunderBird, Abiword, Audacity, avidemux, cheese, drgeo, firestarter, glade and many, many more.

To say one won't allow GTK2+ dependent applications on their installation is to eliminate from consideration a LOT of excellent software. This is what makes the possibility of GTK2+ being infected with MONO so serious.

I've attached a txt file containing a sorted list of my GTK2+ dependent files.