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Collaborative music making  
Written by kisama the 7 Dec 10 at 12:59. New
There is no simple program, to my knowledge, that lets you record an instrument, send it to an online database and let others record their instrument over it.
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Solution #1: YouJam
Written by kisama the 7 Dec 10 at 12:59.
I would really love something that brings a few things together.

- It lets you record yourself (audio/video), through mic or line-in.
- You can upload the video to an online database. This can be youtube using the user's yt account (or better yet, by creating a channel for the app and uploading there), it would add tags that let the program find related videos (made using the program) easily.
- You record yourself playing along with a previously uploaded video. The program would save the new vid as a split screen with both players playing side by side. The more people jamming along, the more people would be in the video. The program should normalize audio levels using some sort of smart algorithm, or manual (if the user does a bad job with the volume levels, the vid would get bad ratings).
- Uploading your contribution would be optional of course, it could be used as tool for personal training in jamming.
- It would also add info on how many are playing in the video and which instruments and style are used (you have to fill this in in the program).
- Should provide some additional tools, like a metronome, or some drum samples, tuner (optional though, since there are other programs that provide these functions).
- Rating the videos should be possible inside the program.

This, I believe, are all things that can be done in linux using several apps. Putting it all together in an easy and fun to use GUI that automates the process would make for a wonderful, social and innovative program.

If made using gtk it would be portable and therefore ensure a wide base of users, recording and uploading music from the comfort of their home. It would be a really social and fun app, not only for the ones using it, since the videos can be found by anyone on youtube and commented upon there.

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"Open folder" in context menu when right click on picture in cheese  
Written by adse the 19 Jun 10 at 15:50. New
when you take a picture with the "cheese" application (Application --> Sound & Video --> Cheese Webcam Booth) it shows a little miniature version of the picture in an area under the "Take a Picture"-button.

when I right click on one of those miniature pictures with the right mouse button, the context menu that appears only offers a few options: Open, Save as..., Move to Trash.

I'd love to have the option for browsing the folder the picture was saved in, i.e. "Open directory".

In that way I would no longer have to separately open a folder and navigate to the /home/*username*/Pictures/Webcam folder every time I want to edit/move the file.

Thanks & bye-bye...

by the way: the context menu could probably use a hand full of other features as well...
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Solution #1: please add more features to the context menu
Written by adse the 19 Jun 10 at 15:50.
- add "Open folder" to the context menu.
- add "cut" and "copy" to instantly move or copy the file to an other directory.

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Stand Alone Video Talk - Integrate Cheese Program with Google talk Voice app  
Written by anbuselvan2004 the 16 Oct 09 at 14:14. New
Integration between cheese application and Google voice (which is currently available only in windows, I guess its an open source code - so it shouldn't be a problem for GNU/Linux dev team).
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Solution #1: Integrate Cheese program capability with Voice
Written by anbuselvan2004 the 16 Oct 09 at 14:14.
Integrating Cheese program with the google voice kinda open source project, at least at first let it be a GNU/Linux exclusive project then it should be a platform independent or from first release it can be independent.

Motto:
1.Should be able to have a voice clarity like Google
2.Should be able to have a video clarity like Cheese
3.As release progresses, it could be used for desktop sharing (may be to beat Webex functionality)

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Cheese installed by default in Ubuntu  
Written by nq6 the 2 Oct 09 at 17:00. New
Cheese is a Photobooth-inspired GNOME application for taking pictures and videos from a webcam. It also includes fancy graphical effects based on the gstreamer-backend.

Homepage: http://projects.gnome.org/cheese
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Solution #1: Cheese installed by default in Ubuntu
Written by nq6 the 2 Oct 09 at 17:00.
Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others.

cheese-big

Cheese is a very interesting program, small and can be inserted in Ubuntu by default. Today we have almost all Notebooks webcams installed. It would be very interesting.

Note: The installation could be smart. If one was identified Webcam on the machine, it installed the Cheese.
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Solution #2: "Best" webcam program should be chosen
Written by hoppimike the 4 Oct 09 at 11:38.
Whichever webcam program is considered the best in terms of user-friendliness, features, integration and ease of future development should be the one integrated, or offered as an option for installation :)

If this is Cheese, then this should be the one chosen!

I am only suggesting this because I am unsure what the actual best Webcam program on Ubuntu is, and surely, whether it's Cheese or not, wouldn't it be logical to install the one that is the best? I am VERY confused as to why people keep marking this down :(

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Solution #3: Prompt for install when hardware detected
Written by Stebalien the 4 Oct 09 at 17:18.
Not all (and as far as I know, very few) people have webcams. Therefore, there is little reason for webcam software to be installed by default. Instead, Ubuntu should propt to install applicable applications on detection of hardware. This would not only be limited to webcams but would also apply to fingerprint readers, bluetooth devices, etc.

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Let's build a place where easly record what you want.  
Written by josephk84 the 29 Sep 09 at 15:45. New
I know this is a Gnome upstream wish.. but also that this is a good place to spread an idea.
Is there a huge difference in using Screenshot instead of recording your desktop with "Istanbul"?
And between recording a video with your webcam with "Cheese" and grabbing audio from your mic with "Sound recorder"?
Can you now manage the output files in all those gnome programs as you wish?
NO.

So, let's build a software using the existing code that fill full the requests of today's users..
I image a place where i can
- take pictures, record audio and/or video of my desktop
- take pictures, record audio and/or video from my webcam and/or my mic
- configure output file proprieties (.avi/.ogg, bitrate, resolution..)
- easily

Do you think my idea of a "Recording center" is not meaningful? That now those gnome programs are serving us well? Well, I don't think so.

Best regards
Alex
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Solution #1: Recording Center
Written by josephk84 the 29 Sep 09 at 15:45.
Trying to use existing code, let's unite Cheese, Screenshot, Sound Recorder, Istanbul, (or, at least, their functions) in a common interface, and enrich it with easy but necessary options.

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Add effects to cheese and create an effects sharing platform  
Written by rolandixor the 5 May 09 at 21:36. New
Currently, cheese is a little anemic compared to other photobooth software. I'm not to sure how cheese is structured, but I believe it should be possible to create a simple platform to allow users to create their own effects, and to share them in a social manner.

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Solution #1: Effects platform and website
Written by rolandixor the 5 May 09 at 21:36.
My idea is, add some unique effects to cheese (and return them to the original project). Next, create a platform for creating effects (from simple to outlandish, simple being to add images for overlay, and to save settings that you used to accomplish something, and outlandish being to allow programming new effects, maybe in python?), and uploading these effects to a kind of effect cloud; a website for sharing cheese effects in a standardized format.

This would set ubuntu, and linux in general, far ahead of the game!
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Solution #2: Add "plugin" support
Written by aadityabhatia the 6 May 09 at 21:28.
Following the "plugin" design model, add plugin support to Cheese so that customized effects could easily be added or removed. These plugins could easily be distributed in a separate package for those who wish to install them.

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Its no posible to record video with cheese from the command line  
Written by sartrejp the 23 Jan 09 at 13:52. New
Cheese only could run from gui (from command line only can run cheese)
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Solution #1: Record video with cheese from the command line
Written by sartrejp the 23 Jan 09 at 13:52.
cheese would be good to run with the option to take pictures or record videos from the command line, allowing its implementation in combination with "cron" or other commands
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Solution #2: Use a CLI video tool already in the repos
Written by cheesehead the 23 Jan 09 at 22:01.
For example streamer. Or webcam.

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integrate cheese with FUSA  
Written by mhall119 the 8 Jan 09 at 19:43. New
Since the Fast User Switcher Applet is heading in the direction of being a more general purpose User Applet, it would be nice to integrate Cheese webcam captures to let you update your account photo.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #17133
Written by mhall119 the 8 Jan 09 at 19:43.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #17133 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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OnBoard Webcam support  
Written by Wiplash4 the 6 Dec 08 at 19:31. New
Please install more drivers for build in webcams! I guess that onBoard Webcams will become more common!
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #16282
Written by Wiplash4 the 6 Dec 08 at 19:31.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #16282 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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Face recognition for cheese (for smiling and blinking detection)  
Written by Auzy the 30 Sep 08 at 13:49. New
Cheese should have a face recognition feature that only takes a photo when:
1) Nobody is blinking
2) Everyone is smiling

The Samsung omnia smartphones (which are only 600mhz) already do this, and apparently it works quite well. Face recognition could then later be used in other libraries.

And this would make profile pictures and such closer to "one-touch". It also helps polish linux to the point it doesn't demand user for feedback to operate, instead it is able to identify in these cases when the photo is bad, and delay the photo until it is good.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #13891
Written by Auzy the 30 Sep 08 at 13:49.
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