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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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Install cheese wen webcam is pluged in  
Written by kiersie the 30 Aug 08 at 14:08. New
Ask to install cheese when webcam is pluged in
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #12672
Written by kiersie the 30 Aug 08 at 14:08.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #12672 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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Take webcam pictures of failed logins  
Written by nelson.blaha the 17 Sep 08 at 06:44. New
When a login fails, have the webcam take a picture so that the culprit might be identified.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #13331
Written by nelson.blaha the 17 Sep 08 at 06:44.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #13331 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.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #13891 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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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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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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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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Missing Warhol effect in Cheese  
Written by BlackLukes the 30 Jan 09 at 17:06. New
Currently in Cheese there's a similar effect to the warhol one: psychedelic. But, there is something like a vortex that makes it look different.
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Solution #1: Add Warhol effect in Cheese
Written by BlackLukes the 30 Jan 09 at 17:06.
My idea is to create a Warhol effect, when later you can change colors selecting the existing colors (purple, black and white and so on). To be more clear, this effect should look like this:

http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs25/f/2008/129/f/9/Twiggy_Andy_Warhol_style_by_Toas t2023.png

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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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