Webcam video recorder

Question

Looking for video recorder applications in Ubuntu that can:

• record videos from webcam.
• can save for example last 15 minutes so I can review that recorded video; I don't want it to record all the time (hard disk will get full); only 15 minutes is enough.

Solution 1

You can use vlc (sudo apt-get install vlc -y).

1. Open vlc, then press Ctrl+R
2. choose [capture device] and select your webcam
3. Press [Convert/Save]
4. Choose where to save the file and hit [start].
5. When you are done press ■

Solution 2

You may use Cheese

It ships with Ubuntu by default.

If you don't see in your installed software list, you may install this from Ubuntu Software Center.

Comments

[Admin]

askubuntu.com/questions/161940/…

[Admin]

more ways: askubuntu.com/questions/186003/…

[Deniz]

yes that'a it! but I should choose "Play" :)

[matanster]

What would "v4l2://" showing as the "source" during that dialog flow in VLC mean?

[fallingcats]

@matanster v4l2 is short for video for linux v2, it's basically just an API for accessing video devices in linux

[matanster]

I find cheese much simpler and friendly to operate than super-sophisticated and UX challenged VLC. It is just simple when you are less picky about formats and configurations.

[matanster]

Is it the only responsible value to keep on that field?

[Guilherme Garnier]

Is it possible to watch the webcam image as VLC records?

[Guybrush Threepwood]

It works, but quality needs to be configured and how to do so is not super intuitive. My videos look grainy by default, whereas Cheese worked out of the box.

[laur34]

I agree that Cheese is the simplest to use. I've tried a few others, and no matter what I tried to do, the volume level of the audio playback was too low. Then I tried Cheese, and it just works 'out of the box'.

[Silicomancer]

Cheese looks great. Unfortunately it crashes when recording a video on my system.

[Joe Schraube]

VLC settings for recording looks very incomprehensible and confusing