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authorDaniel G. Siegel <dgsiegel@src.gnome.org>2007-08-20 16:36:49 +0000
committerDaniel G. Siegel <dgsiegel@src.gnome.org>2007-08-20 16:36:49 +0000
commita4ca1f59c0d3d31bd5b940f2d70f9ddafa5dbeb2 (patch)
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@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
README for Cheese
-----------------
-Requirements:
+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.
+
+Cheese currently requires:
- glib-2.0 >= 2.12.0
- gobject-2.0
- gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0
@@ -11,6 +15,7 @@ Requirements:
- gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.12
- gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 >= 0.10.12
- gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10 >= 0.10.12
+ - gstreamer-pango-0.10 >= 0.10.12
- gnome-vfs-2.0
- libgnomeui-2.0
- libebook-1.2 (evolution-data-server)
@@ -20,12 +25,10 @@ Requirements:
- a webcam
- a brain
-Using:
-Simply launch 'cheese'. The taken photos will be stored in the folder images in
-your working path. e.g. if you start it from ~, you will end up with a folder
-~/images.
+The official website is:
+ http://live.gnome.org/Cheese
How to get your camera working:
To get your camera working with cheese, you will have to ensure that it works
with the Gstreamer Framework and Video4Linux2 (V4L2) or Video4Linux (V4L). To
-modify the input or the output simply run 'gstreamer-properties'
+test this, you can use the 'gstreamer-properties' tool.