Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: gottlieb@×××.edu
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] webcam software
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 02:47:47
Message-Id: 87ppnkka03.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] webcam software by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 On Sat, Jan 18 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
2
3 > On Jan 18, 2014 4:02 PM, <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
4 >>
5 >> My main system is a dell latitude E6430s. I am embarrassed to say
6 >> that, although I have had this system for a while, I just now realized
7 >> that it has a build in webcam. What software do you recommend and what
8 >qqq> should I start reading to learn how to use it.
9 >
10 > To play with it, and of you already use GNOME, I recommend Cheese. It's
11 > actually fun to use.
12 >
13 > For video conferencing, and if you and your interlocutors have already sold
14 > your souls to Google, Google Hangouts works remarkably well; I have use it
15 > for doing joint research remotely a couple of times, and it works great.
16 >
17 > You only need to emerge google-talkplugin.
18 >
19 > Regards.