WebcamStudio is an excellent application released under GPL, that among the many features it has a very special, namely the ability to simulate a webcam, and then, may succeed in deceiving the person with whom we are interrupting through amsn or skype, by showing consequently a movie and deceiving, because he believes that what we are seeing is live. On the site you can download the. deb package for those who use Ubuntu, for others, using different distros including myself who are on Debian Sid, you should first check if the module is present vloopback, otherwise compile:

debianbox:/home/edmond# lsmod | grep vloopback
vloopback 9678 0
videodev 25211 4 vloopback,tuner,saa7134,v4l2_common

If not it compile with module-assistant:

# apt-get install module-assistant vloopback-source

# ma prepare

# ma ai vloopback-source

# reboot

At this point we verify that the module is present and then we start WebcamStudio:

tar zxvf WebcamStudio_0.53.tar.gz

cd webcamstudio

java -jar "WebcamStudio.jar"

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