Webcamoid is a webcam plasmoid for the KDE desktop environment.

• Take pictures with the webcam.
• Record videos.
• Manages multiple webcams.
• Play/Stop capture, this saves resources while the plasmoid is not in use.
• Written in C++.
• 100% Qt based software, for KDE/Qt purists.
• Custom controls for each webcam.
• Popup applet support (you can embed Webcamoid in the panel).
• Add funny effects to the webcam (requires Frei0r plugins and QImageBlitz).
• +50 effects available.
• Effects with live previews.
• Translated to many languages.
• Stand alone installation mode (use it as a normal program).
• Use custom network and local files as capture devices.
• Capture from desktop.

Webcamoid's dependencies are:

• Qt (Qt >= 4.7, Qt5 not sopported)
• kdelibs
• Frei0r plugins
• QImageBlitz
• FFmpeg >= 1.2

NOTE: Some distributions doesn't provides FFmpeg packages, if this is your case, enable the USE3DPARTYLIBS options in qmake.

Build dependecies:

• Wget (if USE3DPARTYLIBS is enabled)
• Bison >= 2.7
• Flex

You can build Webcamoid with the following commands:

qmake-qt4 Webcamoid.pro PREFIX=/usr #USE3DPARTYLIBS=1
make
su -c 'make install'
kbuildsycoca4

The PREFIX variable is where the files will be copyed with the make install command. The INSTALLPREFIX is the final installation path of Webcamoid. If INSTALLPREFIX is not specified, INSTALLPREFIX will be equal to PREFIX.

Webcamoid is not just a webcam capture software. You can, for example, use it to capture from a video, image file, IP cameras, or the desktop. If you want to add a new stream, go to the "Configure Custom Streams" option, and click in the "Add" button. Give it a human readable "Device Name" and write the path to the stream in the "URI" field. Here are some examples:

• file:///home/YourHome/Videos/SomeFunnyVideo.ogv
• http://1.2.3.4:1234/mjpg/video.mjpg
• http://www.somesite.com/mjpg/video.mjpg
• rtsp://user:[email protected]/mpeg4

You can search some online IP cameras here and here

Edit the Lib.pro file and add you language code to the TRANSLATIONS macro, then, in the root directory of the project run:

lupdate-qt4 -verbose -noobsolete Webcamoid.pro

A share/ts/your_lang_code.ts will be created. Translate that file to your language using Qt Linguist.

Some languages are officially supported and other are supported through Google Translator.

• Catalan
• Chinese Simplified
• Chinese Traditional
• English (official)
• French
• Galician
• German
• Greek
• Italian
• Japanese (official)
• Korean
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish (official)

Run this command:

plasma-windowed webcamoid

use Webcamoid until an abnormal event happen, write a list with the following information:

1. Your Webcamoid version.
2. Your distribution name and version (numeric, please).
3. Your KDE and Qt version.
4. Your GCC version.
5. The output of the previous command.
6. Any other useful information.

Send this list to the issues page.