I just bought a brand X webcam to use for video calls with my desktop computer. It works with Skype and Google Hangouts. The Internet told me I should try webcamoid or cheese for recording videos. I downloaded both. Webcamoid is overly complicated for my liking. Cheese is simpler but the output images are tall and narrow, likely because it expects output to a wide screen monitor and mine isn’t.
Could someone please recommend simple software for recording? Possibly run from a console. Thanks in advance.
Well my screen is different. No three coloured dots top left, no three dots top right, Top left has a down arrow for window settings. Top right has up-arrow, dash, plus sign, and x.
So we seem to have different versions. I could try re-installing, which I did from the usual repositories, but zypper has never misbehaved.
Yes, that works a lot better once I changed the resolution. And it has just enough adjustments to suit my simple tastes. Many thanks for helping me out.
Problem: nothing provides libgnome-desktop-3.so.19()(64bit) needed by cheese-3.38.0-1.1.x86_64
Solution 1: do not install cheese-3.38.0-1.1.x86_64
Solution 2: break cheese-3.38.0-1.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/c/d/?] (c): 2
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Problem: cheese-lang-3.34.0-lp152.2.5.noarch requires cheese = 3.34.0, but this requirement cannot be provided
Solution 1: deinstallation of cheese-lang-3.34.0-lp152.2.5.noarch
Solution 2: do not install cheese-3.38.0-1.1.x86_64
Solution 3: break cheese-lang-3.34.0-lp152.2.5.noarch by ignoring some of its dependencies
Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/3/c/d/?] (c): 3
Resolving dependencies...
Resolving package dependencies...
Problem: nothing provides libgnome-desktop-3.so.19()(64bit) needed by cheese-3.38.0-1.1.x86_64
Solution 1: do not install cheese-3.38.0-1.1.x86_64
Solution 2: break cheese-3.38.0-1.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
I would not install that package on Leap, Leap 15.2 has only version 3.34…
