The ‘geekier’ media players, like VLC and Media Player Classic, can stream directly from your webcam which you can then record using built-in functionalities. To get photos, you have to split the video into frames and extract the required frames from it.
You can then record to your heart’s fill and Movie Maker will create a nice video for you. Now click on the “Webcam Video” button on the ribbon, and Movie Maker will turn on and show your webcam. For what it’s worth, it can also record and create videos from your webcam.ĭownload and install Movie Maker from here, and launch it from your Start menu. As its name suggests, WLMM allows you to create casual movies and personal videos from an input stream of photos, music and videos. We start with unusual tool #1 – Microsoft’s own Windows Live Movie Maker. For the rest of us, there are some very unusual yet useful tools that’ll do the job just fine. Most of the purchased laptops and netbooks do come pre-installed with Cyberlink Youcam, but it’s not free and you won’t have it once you format your system (unless you’ve an HP computer).
Unfortunately (and surprisingly), Windows users are left in the dust.
Mac users have PhotoBooth at their disposal, while Linux users can always count on the amiable Cheese. There are times when you might need to snap a photo or record some home video with your PC’s webcam.
