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Add Webcam to "Create" - mortarm - 01-19-2020
Greetings:
How do I add a USB webcam to the File>Create menu? I'm using 2.10 on Win7.
Thanks.
RE: Add Webcam to "Create" - Ofnuts - 01-19-2020
Your best bet would be to fake the TWAIN support for scanners. Otherwise use a script outside of Gimp that take the picture (cheese or ffmpgeg) and calls Gimp on it.
RE: Add Webcam to "Create" - rich2005 - 01-19-2020
For Windows, unless the situation has improved, the Gimp TWAIN plugin (32 bit) does not work with Gimp 10 64 bit. Worth trying with an older 2.8 GIMP
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If you ever use your linux as stated in your profile.
Not much better, you need sane-v4l backend and that is totally missing for Debian based distros. (I remember using this years ago with PClinuxOS edit: just fired up the PCLOS desktop and got a Gimp / webcam / XSANE capture, still working)
Best I got is linux VLC, (might work with Windows) which picked up my ancient webcam. A bit of a 'droste' shot.
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...back to the junkbox for you
