I would like to try using Cheese in Google+ Hangouts, and similar configurations, and I would like to know if it is possible for the webcam to be used by two processes to have access to the webcam at the same time. I have not tried it as yet, but before I do, I figured I would ask.
So, is it possible?
Well I just tried. Interesting results.
I have got skype and cheese and webcam toy and hangouts (which all do work) and tried them together.
Results:
You can't use the same webcam on 2 things at once.
Cheese (Working) + Webcam Toy (Not working) + Skype (Small, top right. Not working).
You can use 2 webcams on 2 things though. (Cheese + Webcam Toy).
Hangouts (Not working) + Cheese (Working)
Hangouts (Working on it's own).
Cheese broken when I opened Hangouts first. It did the same with the others, but my internet is too slow to upload every single screenshot (and I doubt you'd appreciate 30+ screenshots)...
I even tried making a symbolic link to /dev/video0 and saving it in /dev as video2. That didn't work.
I also can't run 2 cheese processes at once.
If you had to, I would advise making it full screen and doing 2 screen recordings. I doubt that would work for what you want though.
