{"id":3431,"date":"2014-06-12T14:13:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T14:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2014-06-12T14:18:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T14:18:32","slug":"install-guvcview-1-7-3-ubuntu1404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/install-guvcview-1-7-3-ubuntu1404\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Guvcview 1.7.3 in Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/guvcview.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/guvcview.png\" alt=\"install the latest guvcview 1.7.3 in Ubuntu 14.04\" width=\"248\" height=\"248\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/guvcview.png 248w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/guvcview-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guvcview is a video capture tool for cameras supported by the linux UVC driver, although it should also work with any v4l2 compatible device.<\/p>\n<p>It provides:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Image: jpg, png, bmp<\/li>\n<li>Video: mjpeg, flv1, wmv1, mpg2, mpg4, vp8, ogg theora<\/li>\n<li>Sound: mp3, acc, avi and matroska<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also use guvcview as a control window only, (from console: guvcview &#8211;control_only), this allows image control on other apps, like ekiga, cheese, mplayer, skype, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/guvcview-ubuntu1404.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/guvcview-ubuntu1404.png\" alt=\"Guvcview Ubuntu 14.04\" width=\"600\" height=\"349\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/guvcview-ubuntu1404.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/guvcview-ubuntu1404-300x174.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Ubuntu 14.04 has Guvcview 1.7.1 in its repositories, the latest has reached Guvcview 1.7.3 with following changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>add silence frames to compensate audio drift (delay).<\/li>\n<li>fix possible memory leak<\/li>\n<li>add video and image capture through system signals: SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2<\/li>\n<li>add true no_display mode (no X required)<\/li>\n<li>small bug fixes<\/li>\n<li>add H264 decoding support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Install Guvcview 1.7.3 in Ubuntu 14.04:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The official v1.7.3 packages from <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/guvcview\/files\/debian-bin\/\" target=\"_blank\">sf.net<\/a> were built on Ubuntu 13.10 and they don&#8217;t work on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty due to dependencies problem.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve rebuilt it into PPA based on Ubuntu 14.04, just download and double click to install it via Ubuntu Software Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/apps\/+files\/guvcview_1.7.3%2Bubuntu1~trusty~ppa1_i386.deb' class='arconix-button arconix-button-large arconix-button-blue'>guvcview 1.7.3 32-bit<\/a> <a href='https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/apps\/+files\/guvcview_1.7.3%2Bubuntu1~trusty~ppa1_amd64.deb' class='arconix-button arconix-button-large arconix-button-blue'>guvcview 1.7.3 64-bit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guvcview is a video capture tool for cameras supported by the linux UVC driver, although it should also work with any v4l2 compatible device. It provides: Image: jpg, png, bmp Video: mjpeg, flv1, wmv1, mpg2, mpg4, vp8, ogg theora Sound: mp3, acc, avi and matroska You can also use guvcview as a control window only, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1096,855],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-camera","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}