Does Digikam manage webcams

[Stephane Ascoet-4]

Hi, I must choose a tool to use webcams as a still camera for the
university I'm working in. Is Digikam suitable for this?

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Stephane Ascoet, assistance informatique, Site Saint-Martin de
l'Universite de Cergy-Pontoise

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[Arnd Baecker]

Hi,

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Stephane Ascoet wrote:

> Hi, I must choose a tool to use webcams as a still camera for the
> university I'm working in. Is Digikam suitable for this?

digikam uses gphoto2 internally to access cameras.
So I would recommend to check the documentation
on the gphoto homepage http://www.gphoto.org/
with respect to your specific model
and if necessary ask on the gphoto2 mailing list.

Best, Arnd
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[Dotan Cohen]

On 17/01/2008, Stephane Ascoet <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi, I must choose a tool to use webcams as a still camera for the
> university I'm working in. Is Digikam suitable for this?

Try camorama.

Dotan Cohen

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[Colin Guthrie-6]

Stephane Ascoet wrote:
> Hi, I must choose a tool to use webcams as a still camera for the
> university I'm working in. Is Digikam suitable for this?
>

Although not a KDE program you could look at Cheese! It's inspired by
Photobooth (OSX). IT's got some nice effects!

http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/

Col

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[Dotan Cohen]

On 21/01/2008, Stephane Ascoet <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Hi, thanks for the answers. We already have camorama, but teachers want another one.

If you could describe what you do not like about camorama, then we
could suggest something else that may meet your needs.

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[Stephane Ascoet-4]

Dotan Cohen" <[hidden email]>
        If you could describe what you do not like about camorama, then
        we
        could suggest something else that may meet your needs.
       
Hi, I think that they don't know what they really want themselves. They say that camorama doesn't work on some computers, but why, no idea...
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[Dotan Cohen]

On 22/01/2008, Stephane Ascoet <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen" <[hidden email]>
>         If you could describe what you do not like about camorama, then
>         we
>         could suggest something else that may meet your needs.
>
> Hi, I think that they don't know what they really want themselves. They say that camorama doesn't work on some computers, but why, no idea...

Well, obviously it won't work on a computer without minimum hardware
requirements such as, say, a webcam...

Doesn't work means:
1) Will not install (then let us know how you are trying to install it
and what happens)
2) Will not run (then start it from a console and post the output here)
3) Will not see the camera (then make sure there is /dev/video and
post the end of the kernel log when plugging in a USB camera. If the
camera is not USB, then post more details)
4) Something else (be descriptive)

Dotan Cohen

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