Cheese is a cheesy program to take pictures and videos from your web cam. The project also provides some graphical effects in order to please the users play instinct. Furthermore some integration work will be done to include it in some other programs and services.

Requirements:

· lib-2.0 >= 2.12.0
· gobject-2.0
· gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0
· libglade-2.0 >= 2.0.0
· gdk-2.0
· dbus-1
· gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.12
· gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 >= 0.10.12
· gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10 >= 0.10.12
· gnome-vfs-2.0
· cairo
· a webcam

ATTENTION: If you are getting a really slow response with the video, the video is sluggish and everything looks quite slow, like as the video lags, you may have set "ximagesink" (X Window System (No Xv)) as video-output. This means, that your cpu is doing all the work. Change it to "xvimagesink" (X Window System (X11/XShm/Xv)) in order to let your graphics card do the work.

WARNING: Cheese doesn't support V4L at the moment. The reason for this is unknown, if anybody has a hint for me (as i don't own a V4L-Device), drop a line!

What's New in 2.22.3 Stable Release:

· Cheese did not choose the right thumbnails for already taken pictures, fixes bug #539030
· added/updated translations:
· bg, courtesy of Alexander Shopov
· vi, courtesy of Clytie Siddall



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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Pre-release version bump to 3.3.2
· Remove marshaller generation rules
· The generic marshallers, supplied by GLib, are used instead.
· Make preferences dialog more netbook-friendly
· Fixes bug 663146.
· Convert deprecated GtkVBox and GtkHBox to GtkBox
· Fixes bug 661661.
· Add chapter IDs to documentation
· Add Cheese architecture diagram to documentation
· Fixes bug 664333.
· Set camerabin to playing before start-capture
· Fixes bug 663998, with the camerabin documentation being updated in bug
· 664048.
· Use private GObject pointer in Widget and Chooser
· Additionally, remove some dead code.
· Add gtk-doc comments to UmCropArea
· Currently, UmCropArea is internal (and will likely stay that way), so
· the comments are not included in the generated documentation.
· Use switch statement to select cases
· Use better API to notify and install properties
· Changed g_object_notify_by_pspec() to g_object_notify() and
· g_object_class_install_property() to
· g_object_class_install_properties(). Added properties static array to
· hold properties. Added enum constants identifying properties and
· sentinels for array length definitions. Fixes bug 663098.
· Improve CheeseAvatarChooser documentation
· Add documentation for private methods in CheeseAvatarChooser.
· Improve CheeseEffect documentation
· Document the private methods in CheeseEffect. Simplify effect
· construction, by making the name and pipeline-desc properties
· construct-only. Improve some variables names.
· Improve CheeseFileUtil filename handling
· Use GDateTime to format the time string. Use switch statements when
· selecting cases from an enum. Use g_build_filename() rather than
· g_strjoin(G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, ...).
· Improve CheeseCamera documentation
· Document most of the private methods in CheeseCamera, and rename the
· device-name property to device-node.
· Improve CheeseCameraDevice documentation
· Document most of the private methods in CheeseCameraDevice, and rename
· some variables to more closely match the property names.
· Improve CheeseCameraDeviceMonitor documentation
· Make CheeseFlash a GtkWindow rather than a GObject
· Additionally, add further gtk-doc-like comments to the flash
· implementation.
· Comment Vala methods with Valadoc markup
· Add basic documentation to all methods in Vala sources.
· Add hotplug support to preferences dialog
· Adding and removing camera devices in the CheeseCamera is now propagated
· to the preferences dialog UI. Partially fixes bug 603612.
· Correct default brightness in the schema to zero
· Improve GSettings schema text and include ranges
· Also use the countdown duration for burst mode
· Add a countdown-duration key to GSettings schema
· Add a new GSettings key to allow configuration of the duration of the
· countdown when taking a photo. Partially fixes bug 594267.
· Bump required Vala version to 0.13.2
· Required for Clutter.TableLayout in clutter-1.0.vapi, which was added
· when Vala switched to use GIR files.
· Use STYLE_PROVIDER_PRIORITY_USER
· Use Vala ‘as’ operator where possible
· Use the as operator when fetching widgets from GtkBuilder files, to do a
· runtime type-check.
· Include the version in the man page
· Add generated man page to CLEANFILES
· Fix a typo so that the man page is generated
· Fix gtk-doc checks when srcdir != builddir
· Add man page, generated with xsltproc
· Add help button to the preferences dialog
· Improve documentation to pass gtk-doc tests
· Add the deprecated API index to the documentation. Complete the rename
· of cheese_camera_set_device_by_dev_file() to
· cheese_camera_set_device_by_device_node(). Add missing documentation to
· reach 100% symbol coverage.
· Enable gtk-doc tests during make check
· Check for GStreamer plugins required at runtime
· Add a GStreamer plugin check to configure.ac, which checks for
· individual plugins with gst-inspect, rather than relying on the plugins
· being provided by checking for GStreamer pkg-config files. The check is
· non-fatal, as the plugins are not build-time dependencies.
· Bump pkg-config requirement to 0.24
· Version 0.24 or greater of pkg-config is required in order to avoid the
· duplicate AC_SUBST macro calls for PKG_CHECK_MODULES substitutions.
· Remove unused FULL_LIBEXECDIR from configure.ac
· Add private pointers to libcheese GObject structs
· Speed up access to the private struct of the GObject by adding a
· pointer, so that *_GET_PRIVATE does not have to called each time. Create
· a typedef for the private structures in the headers, and hide the
· structs from the documentation by placing them inside a private
· subsection.
· Add basic documentation for remaining public API
· Add cheese-widget-private.h back to files ignored by gtk-doc. Add basic
· documentation for the remainder of the public API. Use UUID instead of
· ID or UDI. Add blurb and nick to all documented properties. Add
· CheeseVideoFormat documentation. Use unsigned integers where the values
· are always positive. Sprinkle some const qualifiers. Add some filename
· GObject Introspection annotations.
· Update TODO
· Fix several compiler warnings
· Add some missing prototypes, correct some pointer type mismatches, return
· a value from functions that returns values and improve GError handling.
· Use gnome-common compiler warnings
· Additionally, enable silent Automake rules by default so that warnings are
· more visible.
· Add more classes to gtk-doc documentation
· Add basic documentation for CheeseCamera, CheeseFileUtil and CheeseFlash
· classes. Split the API reference into libcheese and libcheese-gtk
· chapters.
· Add CheeseCameraDeviceMonitor::removed callback
· Added CheeseCameraDeviceMonitor::removed signal callback function in
· CheeseCamera. Fixes bug 662852.
· Improved CheeseCameraDeviceMonitor::added signal
· CheeseCameraDeviceMonitor:added has now a CheeseCameraDevice argument.
· CheeseCameraDeviceMonitor is also now a member of CheeseCamera.
· Add a long description to the DOAP file
· help: fixed another typo
· help: moving introduction page back to .page
· help: fixed typo in Makefile.am
· help: updated Makefile.am
· Overhaul the libcheese documentation
· Add documentation for CheeseCameraDevice. Remove bogus XML included in
· the library overview. Add section documentation to all classes, and mark
· them as unstable. Add GObject and GObjectClass struct documentation.
· help: renamed pages and rearranged sections
· Moved all pages, except introduction.page, into sections to make index
· look nicer.
· Use license-type in the about dialog
· Connect thumbnail nav button signals
· The thumb nav widget crashed when clicking the buttons to scroll the
thumbnail view. This was caused by connecting to the wrong signals:
· ‘button-pressed-event’ and ‘button-released-event’, rather than
· ‘pressed’ and ‘released’. There was also some duplicate code for
· creating the left button, which led to a GtkButton being leaked when
· the thumb nav was created. Fixes bug 660686.
· Remove obsolete MAINTAINERS file
· http://live.gnome.org/Git/FAQ#How_do_I_add_a_description_to_the_git_web_view.3F__What_is_this_.22blah.doap.22.3F
· Remove obsolote cicl script
· Increase the photo count in burst mode to 100000
· Fixes bug 659977
· Use an idle handler to generate thumbnails
· A thread was used for generating thumbnails for CheeseThumbView, but
· this had problems with concurrent access to the GtkListStore which
· backs the thumb view, as in bug 648936. A simpler approach is to use an
· idle handler, which avoids the need for acquiring the GDK lock.
· Restore gudev checks during configure
· Added/Updated Translations
· be, courtesy of Yuri Matsuk
· de, courtesy of Mario Blättermann
· es, courtesy of Daniel Mustieles
· et, courtesy of Mattias Põldaru
· gl, courtesy of Fran Dieguez
· he, courtesy of Yaron Shahrabani
· lt, courtesy of Aurimas ÄŒernius
· nb, courtesy of Kjartan Maraas
· sv, courtesy of Daniel Nylander
· tr, courtesy of Muhammet Kara
· xh, courtesy of Andiswa Mvanyashe
· Added/Updated Documentation
· es, courtesy of Daniel Mustieles