Alternatives to Cheese

Question

I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.04 and I find Cheese very basic, are there any alternatives (I have already read this Anything better than Cheese for video capture?, however that is only really on video recording, and I would like a balance)?

Specifically, I would like an application which can:

• Record from the webcam
• Take pictures
• Record audio
• Take screencasts (audio recording included in that as well)

Is there a program that can do all this?

Solution

Camorama:

Camorama is a small utility to view and save images from a webcam or any other Video4Linux device.
Installation:

To install from Software Center click here

To install from terminal: (Ctrl+Alt+T)

sudo apt-get install camorama

Alternatively, you may also use Vokoscreen (screenshots included on GitHub page).

Installation:

You can Install from Software Centre (Or) from terminal.

To install run:

sudo apt-get install vokoscreen

Comments

[David]

I'd say this is rather opinion based and has no 100% good answer

[Admin]

@DavidCole: Well, there are many questions like this on the site, and they tend to find at least a good collection of alternatives, so I don't see why this one shouldn't.

[David]

If everyone else on the site said that they were killing themselves, would you too? @ParanoidPanda

[Arronical]

If everyone were being rude to one another, would you? Also meta.askubuntu.com/questions/14394/… ;)

[Admin]

@Arronical: No, but this sort of question is generally accepted here.

[Fabby]

I use VLC - [media] - [capture device] /dev/video0 when I have to put my encounter suit on... Doesn't do screen casts though...

[Tim]

@DavidCole When you think something is off topic it's good practise not to answer.

[Eliah Kagan]

@David We've finally reopened this, and in light of our actual policy about this sort of question, I can't think of a reason it would be off-topic. So if that's the reason you had deleted your answer, then you may want to undelete it. kazam is still in the repositories for current versions of Ubuntu, and I believe it is useful.