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<refentry id="cheese-1">

<refmeta><refentrytitle>&cmd;</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>

<refmiscinfo class="date">11 Aug 2008</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man1;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</refmiscinfo>

</refmeta>

<indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm>

<indexterm><primary>application for taking photos and videos from a webcam</primary></indexterm>

<refnamediv id="cheese-1-name"><refname>&cmd;</refname>

<refpurpose>application for taking pictures and videos from a webcam</refpurpose>

</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv id="tranmission-1-synp"><title>&synp-tt;</title>

<cmdsynopsis><command>&cmd;</command>

<arg choice="opt"><option>-verbose</option></arg>

<arg choice="opt"><option>-display=<replaceable>display</replaceable></option></arg>

<arg choice="opt"><option role="nodash"><replaceable>gnome-std-options</replaceable></option></arg>

<arg choice="opt"><option role="nodash"><replaceable>gst-std-options</replaceable></option></arg>

</cmdsynopsis>

</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1 id="cheese-1-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title>

<para>

<command>&cmd;</command> is a GNOME application designed to take photos and

videos from a webcam, apply fancy special effects to them and, let you share

them with the others.

</para>

<para>

<command>&cmd;</command> is built on top of the GStreamer streaming-media

framework. <command>&cmd;</command> uses GStreamer to grab the photos and

videos from the webcam and apply various graphical effects to them. For more

information on GStreamer see

<literal>http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/</literal>

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="cheese-1-opts"><title>&opts-tt;</title>

<para>

The following options are supported:

</para>

<variablelist termlength="medium">

<varlistentry>

<term><option role="nodash">-v</option>, <option>-verbose</option></term>

<listitem><para>

Output debug information.

</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><option>-display=<replaceable>display</replaceable></option></term>

<listitem><para>

Specify the X <replaceable>display</replaceable> to use.

</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><option role="nodash"><replaceable>gnome-std-options</replaceable></option></term>

<listitem><para>

Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-std-options</refentrytitle>

<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.

</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><option role="nodash"><replaceable>gst-std-options</replaceable></option></term>

<listitem><para>

Standard options available for use with most GStreamer applications. See

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gst-std-options</refentrytitle>

<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>

for more information.

</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

</variablelist></refsect1>

<refsect1 id="cheese-1-file"><title>&file-tt;</title>

<para>

The following files are used by this application:

</para>

<variablelist termlength="wholeline">

<varlistentry>

<term><filename>/usr/bin/&cmd;</filename></term>

<listitem><para>

The executable for <command>&cmd;</command>

</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><filename>$HOME/Pictures/Webcam/</filename></term>

<listitem><para>

The default directory which <command>&cmd;</command> uses to store

photos and videos.

</para></listitem></varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="cheese-1-exit"><title>&exit-tt;</title>

<para>

The following exit values are returned:

</para>

<variablelist termlength="xtranarrow">

<varlistentry>

<term><returnvalue>0</returnvalue></term>

<listitem><para>

Application exited successfully.

</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry>

<term><returnvalue>>0</returnvalue>

</term><listitem><para>

Application exited with failure.

</para></listitem></varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="cheese-1-attr"><title>&attr-tt;</title>

<para>

See

<olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5">

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle>

<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></olink>

for descriptions of the following attributes:

</para>

<informaltable frame="all">

<tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1">

<colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*">

<colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*">

<thead>

<row>

<entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry>

<entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry>

</row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row>

<entry><para>Availability</para></entry>

<entry><para>image/webcam/cheese</para></entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry colname="COLSPEC0"><para>Interface stability</para></entry>

<entry colname="COLSPEC1"><para>Volatile</para></entry>

</row>

</tbody></tgroup></informaltable>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="cheese-1-also"><title>&also-tt;</title>

<para>

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gnome-std-options</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gst-std-options</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>

</para>

<para>

Cheese community site - <literal>http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese</literal>

</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="cheese-1-note"><title>&note-tt;</title>

<para>

Written by Elaine Xiong, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

</para>

</refsect1>

</refentry>