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Video Diary
Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:22 pm
by spotslayer
I just recently converted my wife's laptop to Kubuntu. She has taken to it like a fish to water. Now I will have a much easier time supporting her. There is one request she has that I need some input on. She likes to keep a diary. She has seen one of her sisters using a video diary on winbloz$. Is there a linux app that will accomplish this? It needs to be pretty foolproof 'cause she is not a real wiz with a computer.
Any ideas or suggestions?
David
Re: Video Diary
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 11:30 am
by Claudio
Kubuntu should have something similar to Cheese for recording video from a webcam. If anything, you should be able to install Cheese via the repos.
Re: Video Diary
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:45 pm
by spotslayer
I was directed to guvcview by folks on another forum. It will be easy enough for her to use and it is also easy to append files using kino.
The cheese I installed did not record audio, but guvcview works pretty well. It is in the ubuntu repos.
Thank's for the input.
David
Re: Video Diary
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 1:22 pm
by Claudio
Very cool! Is it a native Qt application? I'll have to check it out soon.
Re: Video Diary
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 5:22 pm
by spotslayer
Claudio wrote:Very cool! Is it a native Qt application? I'll have to check it out soon.
It is a GTK+ application. Works pretty darn well.