As a possible alternative, I've been using OBS Studio for webcam recording, in addition to streaming and recording some games, and it's worked pretty well for me in that role, and that's available for Linux.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 4:34 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2020, King Beowulf wrote: > > > I've used VLC before. Its a swiss army knife for video playback with > > capture capability. Crazy big dependency list. It may be a bit overkill > if > > all you what is a simple webcam software. > > Ed, > > Yep, there were 48 dependencies not installed here. Took a while to get > them > installed but vlc did build. Looks like it needs a detailed user guide. > > > webcamoid looks interesting, I'll have to check it out. > > The UI when it's loaded is quite distracting. Cute, but distracting. > > > wxcam on Slackbuilds,org. VERY minimal and few bells and whistles. I > might > > drop it when Slackware current -> 15.0 in favor of maybe webcamoid. > > I'll look at that, too. > > What I want to do first is in the 'screen capture' category rather than the > 'webcam capture' category. I use impressive to present the beamer PDFs in > my > presentations and I need to learn how to display the pdf 'slides' using > impressive during a webinar. Attendees can see it full screen (I'll be > speaking, too) and I will have it in a window within the webinar hosting > software. Much to learn and now's the time to learn it. > > Stay well, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Alexander Case Associate Editor for Bureau42.com <http://www.bureau42.com> Host of "Breaking it all Down" & "The Nintendo Power Retrospectives" on YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/user/CountZeroOr> _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
