Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others. It was written as part of Googles 2007 Summer of Code lead by Daniel G. Siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx.
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Open Source Yawcam AlternativesVideo Streaming Apps like Yawcam
The best open source alternative to Yawcam is Cheese. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Yawcam and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Yawcam are Webcamoid, Shinobi, MotionEye and Frigate NVR.
Alternatives list
- 42 Cheese alternatives
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26 Shinobi alternativesShinobi is an Open Source CCTV software written in Node.JS. Streams are img tags, but not MJPEG. Images are transferred through WebSocket. Files are saved in WebM videos, not JPEGs.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- Raspberry Pi OS
- Raspberry Pi
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15 Frigate NVR alternativesA complete and local NVR with AI object detection. Uses OpenCV and Tensorflow to perform realtime object detection locally for IP cameras. With a very good HomeAssistant integration.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
51 ZoneMinder alternativesZoneMinder is a free video camera security application suite, designed for low cost DIY video security including commercial or home CCTV, theft prevention and child or family member monitoring including nanny cam applications.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
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- ZoneMinder is Free and Open Source
20 Motion alternativesMotion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed; in other words, it can detect motion.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Linux
57 motionEyeOS alternativesmotionEyeOS is a Linux distribution that turns a single-board computer into a video surveillance system. The OS is based on BuildRoot and uses motion as a backend and motionEye for the frontend.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
- Banana Pi
- Raspberry Pi
- Orange Pi
- Odroid
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46 Kerberos.IO alternativesKerberos.io is a low-budget video surveillance solution, that uses computer vision algorithms to detect changes, and that can trigger other devices.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- Online
- Chrome OS
- BSD
- Self-Hosted
- Raspbian
- Raspberry Pi
- Docker
22 GTK+ UVC Viewer alternativesguvcview is a video viewer and capture software for the linux UVC driver. It is based in luvcview (http://mxhaard.free.fr), but all controls are done with GTK, allowing for a more user friendly GUI.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
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motion detection rly well managed and a lot of usefull security options