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tshino / softcam

A library to make a virtual webcam on Windows
MIT License
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Mac version? Example problem #7

Closed KaiH-0 closed 2 years ago

KaiH-0 commented 2 years ago

Hi, I have tried this project and it was so simple to setup! This is an amazing project, I am currently making an application that will be used by a few of my colleagues, one of them has a Mac, I was wondering whether there will ever be a plugin version of this, also could you give me an example on making it use an image for the camera as I am going to use OpenCV with it.

tshino commented 2 years ago

Thank you for your interest.

  1. Mac version? Unfortunately, there is no Mac version of this project, and currently, I have no plan to make it. Because Windows and Mac have completely different APIs especially media-related API which is required to build libraries like this project.

  2. Plugin? Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by a plugin. Is it related to Mac?

  3. Using it with OpenCV I recommend starting with a sample program provided by the OpenCV project. For example: https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/master/samples/cpp/videocapture_basic.cpp In OpenCV, an RGB image is expressed with the class cv::Mat. In the above videocapture_basic.cpp, the variable frame will have the video frame. So you could write a code like the below to send the frame to Softcam:

    
scCamera cam = scCreateCamera(frame_width, frame_height, 0);

for (;;) { cap.read(frame); if (frame.empty()) { break; }

// ... you can draw something on or process the frame.

scSendFrame(cam, frame.ptr());

}


I hope it will help you to make your application.
Thanks.
KaiH-0 commented 2 years ago

Thank you this example is very helpful, one issue, I have been trying to use softcam in visual studio code instead of normal visual studio. It keeps complaining about #include <softcam/softcam.h>, saying it can't find it, I have been trying to reference it in the include path but I don't think I'm doing it right.

tshino commented 2 years ago

If you have the file softcam.h in a directory c:\path\to\dist\include\softcam, the corresponding include path is c:\path\to\dist\include, not the path of that directory that contains the file, so that the relative path softcam/softcam.h points to the file based on the include path. But, this is just my guess of what happening to you :)

KaiH-0 commented 2 years ago

That doesn't seem to be working, I have tried it in every way, not sure why it still can't find it.

tshino commented 2 years ago

Sorry for the late response. If you are still in trouble with this project, don't hesitate to post further questions.