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.\" Manual: User Commands
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.TH "CHEESE" "1" "12/12/2022" "Cheese 43\&.0" "User Commands"
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.SH "NAME"
cheese \- tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\fBcheese\fR\ 'u
\fBcheese\fR [option...]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
\fBcheese\fR
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 Google\*(Aqs 2007 Summer of Code lead by daniel g\&. siegel and mentored by Raphaƫl Slinckx\&. Under the hood, Cheese uses GStreamer to apply fancy effects to photos and videos\&. With Cheese it is easy to take photos of you, your friends, pets or whatever you want and share them with others\&. After the success of the Summer of Code, the development continued and we are still looking for people with nice ideas and patches ;)
.SH "INVOCATION"
.PP
\fBcheese\fR
takes a list of options as arguments\&.
.SS "Options"
.PP
\fB\-\-wide\fR, \fB\-w\fR
.RS 4
Start in wide mode, with the thumbnails to the right of the video preview\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-device=DEVICE\fR, \fB\-d DEVICE\fR
.RS 4
Use the supplied DEVICE as the video capture device\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-fullscreen\fR, \fB\-f\fR
.RS 4
Start in fullscreen mode\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-help\fR, \fB\-h\fR
.RS 4
Print brief help and exit\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-version\fR, \fB\-v\fR
.RS 4
Print the version and exit\&.
.RE
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
Cheese help manual
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
\fBcheese\fR
was written by Daniel G\&. Siegel
, Jaap A\&. Haitsma
, Filippo Argiolas
, Yuvaraj Pandian T
, Luciana Fujii Pontello
and David King
\&.
.PP
This manual page was written by David King
\&.