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Webcam Software

This document describes how to choose, setup and use a webcam in Ubuntu. If you are reading this page, you are probably in either/both of the following situations:

Looking for information on which webcam to buy.
Trying to setup and use your existing webcam.

Please note that this document is intended for the current release: Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat).

1. Choosing a Webcam

Webcam support in Linux is mainly provided by the Linux UVC Project's UVC driver. This aims to provide a universal driver in the same way that a generic driver handles USB storage devices (memory sticks, hard drives etc). However, other drivers also exist that may allow more devices to be used. When looking to purchase a webcam for use with Ubuntu, you should look for a UVC compatible camera. The Linux-UVC project has a good list of UVC compatible webcams.

2. Testing Your Webcam Using Cheese

Ubuntu aims to provide 'out-of-the-box' or 'just-works' functionality for webcams. This means that you should be able to plug-in your webcam and use it straight away: no driver disks or installation. To test whether or not your webcam works in this way, install Cheese, a GNOME program for capturing video and stills from a webcam. It can also apply some special effects. Cheese is included in the Main repositories since Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron). It uses the gstreamer library, which utlilizes the video4linux2 API.

Download and install Cheese using the following steps:

Open a terminal window.
Type in the following command:
Run Cheese. Cheese should automatically detect your webcam and display live video stream.
To record video or take a snapshot, click either on photo or video and select Take a Photo or Start recording.
- If Cheese doesn't display the output from your webcam, test that the problem is not with Cheese before trying anything else by using one of the programs in the next section.
- If Cheese displays a garbled picture or one with poor colour/brightness/contrast, go to the Ubuntu wiki Webcam Troubleshooting page for steps to resolve this.

3. Webcam Software

This is a list of software that allows you to do a simple 'plug-in-and-go' test with your webcam. You should try one of these programs if Cheese didn't display anything at all to make sure that Cheese is not causing the problem.

Empathy has been the default VoIP/Video Chat application since Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), and can be used to establish whether or not your webcam is working.

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3.1. Configuring Webcam Software

In some cases your media player (VLC, mplayer, amongst others) will need to know the video and audio device files for your webcam. Before you plug in your webcam, try the following two commands at a console:

Make a note of the devices appearing. Now plug in your webcam, allow the system a few seconds to register the device, and run the two commands again. The new appearances should belong to your webcam (for instance, /dev/video0 and /dev/audio2). If nothing new appears, you may need to switch your webcam on. For a built-in webcam, you may have a function key to do so.

3.2. VLC

3.2.1. Using the GUI

In VLC, choose 'Open capture device' from the file menu and enter the video and audio device files (see above) in video device name and audio device name, respectively. If you just want a 'mirror' (to see what the webcam is showing), click 'OK' and you're done. If you wish to record, tick off 'Stream/save' in the 'Advanced options' section. Click the settings button right next to it. Tick 'File' off under 'Outputs' and enter a filename. Encapsulation method can be left at the default (MPEG TS). Under 'Transcoding options', tick 'Audio codec' and 'Video codec'. These can also safely be left the defaults (obviously greater compression results in lower file sizes, so experiment). Click 'OK' in the Settings screen and once again in the main webcam screen (Video4linux). If you want to have more control, you can access several settings, including resolution, by clicking the Advanced options button.

3.2.2. Using the Command Line

A simple test of just the video from your webcam can be done as follows. This assumes the webcam is installed as '/dev/video0'.

If you wish to be able to quickly start a video session with your webcam, the resulting vlc command is printed in the Customize line at the bottom. You simply need to prepend 'vlc', e.g.

The recording instructions will similarly need to be appended. Copy the contents of the 'Stream Output MRL' box under 'Settings' and change ':sout=' to '--sout ' and append it to your vlc command:, e.g.

To simple take a few snapshots, open the webcam without recording and choose 'Snapshot' under the 'Video' menu.

3.3. FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a cross-platform audio/video recording, conversion and streaming application.

3.3.1. Recording Video

To record both video and audio using FFmpeg, first make sure it is installed:
Run ffmpeg with arguments such as these:

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3.4. MPlayer

MPlayer is capable of displaying a webcam video stream,

3.4.1. Recording Video

To record video from the command line:

Open a terminal window and type the following:
- This example assumes that your webcam device is at /dev/video0
- The resolution (width=??? & height=???) should be chosen to match the output of your device.

3.5. MEncoder

The companion to MPlayer, MEncoder can record from a webcam to video files.

3.5.1. Recording Video

Recording AVI, without audio:
Recording AVI, with audio:
- Type 'man mencoder' for more info on the audio options.
- /dev/dsp1 refers to the webcam USB Audio device.
- /dev/dsp refers to the sound card.

You may need to install these programs with

Camera Monitor from chaos infinito shows a tray icon that lets you know when your webcam is on. It has been in the Universe repository since Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) and is released under the GPL.
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