Cheese (Software)

Cheese (English for Smile! ) Is a free software for recording still pictures and videos using a webcam, with different visual effects can be added in real time. Since version 2.22.0 Cheese is an official part of the Gnome desktop environment.

History of development

Cheese was created as a free alternative for Mac OS X program Photo Booth. Daniel Siegel developed the first versions of the program as part of the Google Summer of Code 2007, with Raphael Slinckx acted as a mentor.

When designing the user interface regardless of the specific requirements of netbooks was taken, which is why the program in many for this area of ​​application -optimized Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu Netbook Remix) is already included.

Functions

Cheese has a shutter lag and sets the screen as a rudimentary flash. In addition, images for photo series can be created automatically at regular intervals. Pictures and videos can already during recording and also be viewed in full screen mode.

The program is well integrated with Gnome, for example, can be used, are considered in F-Spot and managed or exported to the photo site Flickr images for Account photos ( gnome -about- me).

Cheese can appeal to a variety of internal and external webcams on the Video4Linux API, which can be switched between multiple cameras. Recorded videos can be stored in the Ogg container format, which is used as Theora video format and Vorbis for audio compression. This function is based on the GStreamer library that allows several effects:

  • Filter Effects: Hulk, Saturation
  • Manipulation effects: Horizontal or vertical mirroring, Warp
  • Mauve, Noir / Blanc ( " black " ), Shagadelic, vertigo, Edge, Dice
GLib Real-time Digital container format Data compression#Audio
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