README


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README for Cheese
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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 >= 2.12.1
  - gobject-2.0
  - gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0
  - libglade-2.0 >= 2.0.0
  - gdk-2.0
  - dbus-1
  - hal
  - cairo
  - pango
  - librsvg >= 2.18.0
  - gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.15
  - gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10  >= 0.10.15
  - gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10  >= 0.10.6
  - gstreamer-pango-0.10  >= 0.10.12
  - gnome-vfs-2.0
  - libgnomeui-2.0
  - xf86vidmodeproto
  - libebook-1.2 (evolution-data-server)
  - postr for Flickr export (optional)
  - f-spot for F-Spot export (optional)
  - a webcam
  - a brain

The official website is:
   http://www.gnome.org/projects/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
test this, you can use the 'gstreamer-properties' tool.