🆕 version 2 of the open source photobooth-app has a nice video function! Capture live videos now!
Main Features
* Video Capture 📹
* Language switcher (German and English until now, might not be complete yet)
* customize your theme colors: change the primary and secondary color by DominicWindisch
It's still experimental, please post issues https://github.com/photobooth-app/photobooth-app/issues
Comment in the issue tracker if you run into problems or have feedback to improve 🫶
Additional improvements
* improved countdown timer for better UX
* Hide individual images captured during GIF/Collage creation by DominicWindisch in https://github.com/photobooth-app/photobooth-app/pull/174
* Add language switcher (en/de) by DominicWindisch in https://github.com/photobooth-app/photobooth-frontend/pull/2
* Basic macOS-support by PixelAlarm in https://github.com/photobooth-app/photobooth-app/pull/175
* allow theme customization by adding private.css by mgineer85 in https://github.com/photobooth-app/photobooth-app/pull/181 (reverted due to change to vite)
* Pause loresolution stream request during high quality capture by mgineer85 in https://github.com/photobooth-app/photobooth-app/pull/183
* raised gphoto2 timeout from 4seconds to 8 seconds for still capture (176)
* removed Blitzar dependency in favor of jsonforms: JsonForms allows dynamic creation of forms to configure the app.
* preload ffmpeg on app startup to start first video capture faster.
* updated quasar frontend toolchain to vite5 and node 20.
* replace v4l2py by linuxpy camera backend
* improve app shutdown behaviour using fastapi lifecycle hook to capture signals and shutdown container
* fix: improve detection of usb drives in fileservice.
* improvement: backup config before it's overwritten for easier restore
* improvement: more accurate video length by using thread event signal
* improve picamera catch error if buffer allocation fails
* fix video capture deadlock if stdoutput is more than 65555 bytes
* virtual camera delivers now images as livestream instead grey background
* updated dependencies
* many many minor other improvements
New Contributors
* PixelAlarm made their first contribution in https://github.com/photobooth-app/photobooth-app/pull/175
* DominicWindisch made their first contribution in https://github.com/photobooth-app/photobooth-app/pull/174
Thank you! 🫶
**PyPi package:** https://pypi.org/project/photobooth-app/
**Installation:** https://photobooth-app.org/setup/installation/
**Update:** https://photobooth-app.org/setup/update/
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/photobooth-app/photobooth-app/compare/v1.2.1...v2.0.0