Alternative to ManyCam in Mageia.

Alternative to ManyCam in Mageia.

Postby Linares » Aug 16th, '21, 18:11

Does anyone know of an alternative to the Windows "ManyCam" program for Mageia?

With this program I broadcast movies and videos so that my mothers and I can watch them together through messaging programs like Skype.
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Re: Alternative to ManyCam in Mageia.

Postby doktor5000 » Aug 16th, '21, 18:35

You could try webcamoid: https://webcamoid.github.io/
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Re: Alternative to ManyCam in Mageia.

Postby Linares » Aug 16th, '21, 22:06

Thanks a lot.

Following your advice, I have downloaded the portable version.
When unzipping, the following files appear.

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drwxrwxr-x 5 and and 4096 ago 16 22:01 ./
drwxrwxr-x 4 and and 4096 ago 16 22:01 ../
drwxrwxr-x 2 and and 4096 ago 16 22:01 bin/
drwxrwxr-x 3 and and 4096 ago 16 22:01 lib/
drwxrwxr-x 6 and and 4096 ago 16 22:01 share/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 and and  211 feb 16 00:15 webcamoid.sh*



I have used the command chmod + x webcamoid.sh to make it executable. Then, when I double-click it, it does absolutely nothing.

What could be happening?
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Re: Alternative to ManyCam in Mageia.

Postby sturmvogel » Aug 16th, '21, 22:16

If you don't get any reaction after doubleclick it is always a good choice to run in from console and look for any errors
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./webcamoid.sh


No problems here on an old Mageia 8 64bit Plasma Laptop to start this program. In my case it was not necessary to change any rights because the original "-rwxr--r--" means that you as user/owner have already execution rights.
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