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title: Install GTK+ UVC Viewer (UNOFFICIAL) on Linux | Snap Store
description: Get the latest version of GTK+ UVC Viewer (UNOFFICIAL) for Linux - A
  simple v4l2 full-featured video grabber
url: https://snapcraft.io/guvcview
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# GTK+ UVC Viewer (UNOFFICIAL) (guvcview)

[林博仁 Buo-ren Lin (brlin)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/brlin "View all snaps from 林博仁 Buo-ren Lin (brlin)")

* [林博仁 Buo-ren Lin (brlin)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/brlin "View all snaps from 林博仁 Buo-ren Lin (brlin)")
* [Photo and Video](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=photo-and-video)

latest/stable 2.0.6+pkg-f796

Install latest/stable of GTK+ UVC Viewer (UNOFFICIAL)

This channel hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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**Install using the command line**

```
sudo snap install guvcview
```

Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

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### Package name

* guvcview

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### License

* GPL-3.0

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### Last updated

* 10 April 2019 - latest/stable
* 15 December 2019 - latest/edge

This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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### Websites

* [github.com/Lin-Buo-Ren/guvcview-snap](https://github.com/Lin-Buo-Ren/guvcview-snap "https://github.com/Lin-Buo-Ren/guvcview-snap")

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### Contact

* [github.com/Lin-Buo-Ren/guvcview-snap/issues](https://github.com/Lin-Buo-Ren/guvcview-snap/issues "https://github.com/Lin-Buo-Ren/guvcview-snap/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/guvcview#report-snap-modal)

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* [Description](https://snapcraft.io/guvcview#tab-description)
* [Security](https://snapcraft.io/guvcview#tab-security)

#### A simple v4l2 full-featured video grabber

GTK+ UVC Viewer is a simple interface for capturing and viewing video from v4l2 devices, with a special emphasis for the linux uvc driver.

This package provides a control interface based on Gtk3 A console only option is also available.

You can also use guvcview has a control window only, (from console: `guvcview.control-panel`), this allows image control on other apps, like ekiga, cheese, mplayer, skype, ...

OPTIONAL SECURITY CONFINEMENT INTERFACES:

* Connect the snap to the `hardware-observe` interface if your camera supports H.264 hardware encoding:

```
# snap connect guvcview:hardware-observe
```

* Connect the snap to the `removable-media` interface to allow the application to save file under /media and /run/media:

```
# snap connect guvcview:removable-media
```

This package is NOT official, for any problem regarding using the package please refer to:
<https://github.com/Lin-Buo-Ren/guvcview-snap/issues>

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## Install GTK+ UVC Viewer (UNOFFICIAL) on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the [installing snapd documentation](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

[### Arch Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/guvcview/arch)

[### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/guvcview/centos)

[### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/guvcview/debian)

[### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/guvcview/elementary)

[### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/guvcview/fedora)

[### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/guvcview/kde-neon)

[### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/guvcview/kubuntu)

[### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/guvcview/manjaro)

[### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/guvcview/pop)

[### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/guvcview/opensuse)

[### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/guvcview/rhel)

[### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/guvcview/ubuntu)

[### Raspberry Pi](https://snapcraft.io/install/guvcview/raspbian)