Hello Good People!
I recently switched to Ubuntu Studio 26.04 but had to switch back to 24.04 because of an irritating problem of no audio through my USB interface after waking the laptop from sleep.
Whilst I was on 26.04, I tried to install cheese from the terminal but got a message that the package was unavailable due to having been discontinued.
However, I was able to pull it down no problem today on 24.04.
How is that? Any explanations appreciated.
Best
Matt
ThanksâŠSo can you translate that into English?
Cheese is dead and you should use gnome-snapshot
It is in English and fairly self-explanatory. The application is no longer being developed. It was removed in Debian and therefore removed in Ubuntu.
Gnome-snapshot is now the gnome default webcam application alternative to cheese.
So how come I could install it today then? I tried GNOME snapshot and a ton of othersâŠThere was an audio lag issue with everything except cheese and webcamoidâŠHowever, I canât get webcamoid to create .webp videos that are playable on 24.04
âremovedâ doesnât mean it gets taken out of the repositories for releases which originally included it. It means it isnât included for newer releases. The decision to not include it in Debian was made in November 2025 and since Ubuntu often follows the lead of Debian it was removed starting with 26.04.
BTW, was guvcview among the programs you tried ? I know that itâs comparatively lightweight and does support webm and I havenât noticed any obvious audio lag when using it âŠ
Oh, ok. I get it now. Thanks. Yeah, I tried guvcviewâŠcanât remember what the issue was nowâŠAnyway, Cheese works alright for now. So I can soldier on. My real hope is that the audio dropout after waking from sleep mentioned in my other post will get fixed and I can go back to Ubuntu Studio 26.04.
You could try the snap version of cheese, which should be available on Ubuntu 26.04
Well on 26.04..Webcamoid works fine so I would use that. Itâs not like I especially want to use cheese or 24.04anythingâŠ.I just want something that works. Webcamoid doesnât work on 24.04 so I use cheese. The main issue is that some kind of bug on 26.04 which drops out the audio when I wake the laptop up from sleep modeâŠI just canât live with that..Would dearly love to know of a fix for thatâŠ
It helps when you link to the other thread:
Now both threads are linked via Discourse magic. 
Ok thanks. Still no fix for the audio dropout upon wake up from sleep in Ubuntu Studio 26.04
Would be good to get to the bottom of itâŠI mean I can restart pipewire or the DAW but I didnât have to do that on 24.04âŠSomething has changedâŠ
Letâs continue discussing that in the other thread.
Hey Matt,
Sometimes, putting a wrapper script around some low-level permanent functionality is best. In this case, I refer to
The following reference offers a script to create a video from a webcam which someone wanted to use as a security camera with a timestamp on the video. If that is of interest, you might want to give that a look.
It does not currently include audio, but that is easy enough if you follow the reference syntax for combined audio and video, which is
ffmpeg -f <video_driver> -i <video_device> -f <audio_driver> -i <audio_device> output.mp4
Posting offering script:
The following gives you a snapshot of what it looks like for a âtransparentâ background (option for white text on black background):
Ok, thanks Eric. Thanks for explaining all that. I always learn something from these tech headaches.
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