Guvcview added to Easy Excalibur

The original question was asked on the forum about Droidcam, then the missing Guvcview was reported:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=157388#p157388

Yes, the Scarthgap-series is highly refined; it has both Droidcam and Guvcview builtin. Guvcview is in the Debian repository, so I have now added it; it will be builtin.

Here is the Guvcview homepage:

https://guvcview.sourceforge.net/

Guvcview is a GUI for a webcam. Droidcam will turn an Android phone or iPhone into a webcam; it is not in the Debian repository, but I compiled it awhile back for Excalibur, and it is in the Multimedia menu. Note that Droidcam requires the 'v4l2loopback-dc.ko' kernel module, that is included in the kernel .pet.

Droidcam was discussed in 2022:

https://bkhome.org/news/202204/droidcam-audio-from-phone-works.html

But when you select it from the menu, those manual steps are no longer required; it should "just work".  

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