Running A WebCam In Ubuntu???

Hi Team – Me again,

I have a bird-cam running marvelous on my XP desktop using Debut Video Capture Software. The problem is that being a dunce when it comes to Linux just at the moment, I downloaded Cheesecake from the Ubuntu software website expecting it to work! I gather i was a tad over optimistic and that it is buggy and requires some code to be added……….So i looked on youtube and found some kid in his bedroom from across the pond (US) explaining that everything would work fine if i cut and pasted some code into Ubuntu………Yeah right!

Err, where might that code be? and if i found it i ain’t got a clue where to open up and install it………Me Lost – but willing to learn.

Hope this makes sense?

ATB
BongFury.