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Cheese (software)

Cheese is the former default webcam application for the GNOME desktop, i.e. an application to handle UVC streams over Video4Linux. It was developed as a Google Summer of Code 2007 project by Daniel G. Siegel. It uses GStreamer to apply effects to photos and videos. It can export to Flickr and is integrated into GNOME. It was officially added to GNOME in version 2.22. eventually being replaced with the application Snapshot, which was introduced in GNOME 45.

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Cheese is the former default webcam application for the GNOME desktop, i.e. an application to handle UVC streams over Video4Linux. It was developed as a Google Summer of Code 2007 project by Daniel G. Siegel. It uses GStreamer to apply effects to photos and videos. It can export to Flickr and is integrated into GNOME. It was officially added to GNOME in version 2.22. eventually being replaced with the application Snapshot, which was introduced in GNOME 45.

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