🆕 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 #174
Add language switcher (en/de) by @DominicWindisch in photobooth-app/photobooth-frontend#2
Basic macOS-support by @PixelAlarm in #175
allow theme customization by adding private.css by @mgineer85 in #181 (reverted due to change to vite)
Pause loresolution stream request during high quality capture by @mgineer85 in #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

PyPi package: https://pypi.org/project/photobooth-app/
Installation: https://photobooth-app.org/setup/installation/
Update: https://photobooth-app.org/setup/update/

Full Changelog: v1.2.1...v2.0.0