Re: [PLUG] Webcam capture software

2020-05-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020, King Beowulf wrote: 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. Hi, Ed! Hope you're doing well by doing good, and staying healthy while you're at it. I just installed

Re: [PLUG] Webcam capture software

2020-04-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020, Ben Koenig wrote: It helps to know what you are looking to accomplish. OBS is interesting since it can be used to either record or stream. It also mixes audio/video sources so it's useful for podcasting applications. For a communication tool then your search will probably

Re: [PLUG] Webcam capture software

2020-04-11 Thread Tomas Kuchta
+1 for OBS +5 for ffmpeg/mplayer/mpv -T On Sat, Apr 11, 2020, 17:09 Ben Koenig wrote: > It helps to know what you are looking to accomplish. OBS is interesting > since it can be used to either record or stream. It also mixes audio/video > sources so it's useful for podcasting applications. For

Re: [PLUG] Webcam capture software

2020-04-11 Thread Ben Koenig
It helps to know what you are looking to accomplish. OBS is interesting since it can be used to either record or stream. It also mixes audio/video sources so it's useful for podcasting applications. For a communication tool then your search will probably take you in a very different direction. As

Re: [PLUG] Webcam capture software

2020-04-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020, Alexander Case wrote: 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. Alexander, I installed it and looked at

Re: [PLUG] Webcam capture software

2020-04-11 Thread Alexander Case
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 wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2020, King Beowulf

Re: [PLUG] Webcam capture software

2020-04-11 Thread Rich Shepard
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

Re: [PLUG] Webcam capture software

2020-04-11 Thread King Beowulf
On 4/11/20 2:25 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > My research found two linux applications for webcam capture: vlc and > webcamoid. Has anyone experience with these and will share thoughts on > preferring one ove the other? > I've used VLC before. Its a swiss army knife for video playback with capture

[PLUG] Webcam capture software

2020-04-11 Thread Rich Shepard
My research found two linux applications for webcam capture: vlc and webcamoid. Has anyone experience with these and will share thoughts on preferring one ove the other? TIA, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org