Webcamoid
by Gonzalo Exequiel Pedone
Take photos and record videos with your webcam
Dangerous permissions
Flathub reviewed
GPL-3.0-or-later
v9.4.0
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About
Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform camera suite.
- Cross-platform (GNU/Linux, Mac, Windows)
- Take pictures and record videos with the webcam
- Manages multiple webcams
- Written in C++ and Qt
- Custom controls for each webcam
- Add funny effects to the webcam
- +60 effects available
- Translated to many languages.
- Use custom network and local files as capture devices
- Capture from desktop
- Many recording formats
- Virtual camera support for feeding other programs
Permissions
1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
--device=all - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - network
--share=network - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - audio
--socket=pulseaudio - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - access to your pictures folder
--filesystem=xdg-pictures - access to your videos folder
--filesystem=xdg-videos - access to xdg-config/kdeglobals
--filesystem=xdg-config/kdeglobals:ro - talks to com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
--talk-name=com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar - talks to org.kde.kconfig.notify
--talk-name=org.kde.kconfig.notify - talks to org.kde.KGlobalSettings
--talk-name=org.kde.KGlobalSettings
Who publishes this
On Flathub: the manifest was reviewed and built on Flathub's infrastructure, but the developer has not verified ownership of the app id.
- on Flathub: manifest reviewed and built by Flathub; the developer has not verified the app id
publisher:flathub
Maintenance
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