LWN: Comments on "The long road to a working Cheese"

The long road to a working Cheese

muwlgr — 2009-02-09T12:28:31+00:00

I would better like something to allow use a digital photo camera as a web cam. I.e. in shooting mode and connected to your host by USB.

The long road to a working Cheese

andrigtmiller — 2009-02-06T19:29:57+00:00

The version of Cheese that is in Fedora 10 puts photos in the Pictures->Webcam folder in your home directory, and it puts Videos in the Vidoes->Webcam folder in your home directory. No more hidden directory (e.g. .gnome2->Cheese).

The long road to a working Cheese

burdicda — 2009-02-01T16:27:45+00:00

What it could really use is user changeable default storage location
everytime I install this thing for someone...I have to download the
source and change it to something that makes sense...not a hidden directory
that no one can find....then recompile it and install....

duh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

burdicda

The long road to a working Cheese

debacle — 2009-02-01T14:28:03+00:00

I would love to use cheese together with a VoIP or chat application (ekiga, amsn, ...), for a fun talk. Got angry? Just switch on the Hulk effect! Without this "remote" capability, it's not so interesting to me.

The long road to a working Cheese

kingdon — 2009-01-30T04:02:32+00:00

I suppose I should play with it more to figure out what works and what doesn't, but I didn't have any trouble using Cheese (as shipped with Fedora 10) on a Sylvania netbook with a built-in webcam to take still photos.

I agree it is a nice application.

The long road to a working Cheese

fb — 2009-01-29T11:25:12+00:00

Cheese is indeed a lovely application, it turns those webcams bought for VoIP calls into fun toys. All in all I personally find it the most interesting (and well executed) desktop application in... hum, in a while.

The fact that it has been broken into Ubuntu for so long lead me to stop using it though. Its popularity can be seen by the number of duplicates of the bug that has been keeping people from using it.

FWIW I also experience the jerky (i.e. low frame per second) video using it, though that is probably due to problems in the underlying stack, it does impact the experience of it. In any case, I hope cheese's popularity will help gather motivation to improve the whole stack.