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[Swicegood]

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[Swicegood]

Virtual cam shows up in Zoom, but shows random snow/noise.

Steps: Open webcamoid Make sure picture from physical webcam is showing Add virtual webcam using defaults Open zoom select virtual webcam

Expected: just show picture or placeholder picture

version: daily build of webcamoid and akvCamManager Mac OS 10.15.3

Further info:

I know the following should produce random noise also but it doesn't start.

From command line:

jaga@iMac-314$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=921600 count=30 2>/dev/null | AkVCamManager stream /akvcam/video0 RGB24 640 480 [2020-09-25 16:05:22.742, 0x115c18dc0, src/ipcbridge.mm (165)] debug: bool AkVCam::IpcBridge::registerPeer() [2020-09-25 16:05:22.743, 0x115c18dc0, src/ipcbridge.mm (258)] info: SUCCESSFUL [2020-09-25 16:05:22.743, 0x115c18dc0, src/ipcbridge.mm (153)] debug: void AkVCam::IpcBridge::connectService() [2020-09-25 16:05:22.743, 0x115c18dc0, src/ipcbridge.mm (165)] debug: bool AkVCam::IpcBridge::registerPeer() [2020-09-25 16:05:22.743, 0x115c18dc0, src/ipcbridge.mm (302)] debug: std::vector AkVCam::IpcBridge::devices() const [2020-09-25 16:05:22.743, 0x115c18dc0, src/preferences.cpp (383)] debug: size_t AkVCam::Preferences::camerasCount() [2020-09-25 16:05:22.743, 0x115c18dc0, src/preferences.cpp (170)] debug: int AkVCam::Preferences::readInt(const std::string &, int) [2020-09-25 16:05:22.743, 0x115c18dc0, src/preferences.cpp (385)] info: Cameras: 1 [2020-09-25 16:05:22.743, 0x115c18dc0, src/ipcbridge.mm (305)] info: Devices: [2020-09-25 16:05:22.743, 0x115c18dc0, src/preferences.cpp (135)] debug: std::string AkVCam::Preferences::readString(const std::string &, const std::string &) [2020-09-25 16:05:22.744, 0x115c18dc0, src/ipcbridge.mm (310)] info: /akvcam/video0 [2020-09-25 16:05:22.744, 0x115c18dc0, src/ipcbridge.mm (588)] debug: bool AkVCam::IpcBridge::deviceStart(const std::string &, const AkVCam::VideoFormat &) Can't start stream. [2020-09-25 16:05:22.744, 0x115c18dc0, src/ipcbridge.mm (159)] debug: void AkVCam::IpcBridge::disconnectService() [2020-09-25 16:05:22.744, 0x115c18dc0, src/ipcbridge.mm (276)] debug: void AkVCam::IpcBridge::unregisterPeer() [2020-09-25 16:05:22.744, 0x115c18dc0, src/ipcbridge.mm (276)] debug: void AkVCam::IpcBridge::unregisterPeer()

[hipersayanX]

Virtual cam shows up in Zoom, but shows random snow/noise.

The virtual camera won't include a default picture, from now on you must set it with, for example, AkVCamManager set-picture some_picture.png. For the other part, I've added more error messages, also maybe you forgot to apply the changes with AkVCamManager update.

[Swicegood]

Ok thanks. Yes, AkVCamManager update allowed me to set the picture. Other than than I don't know what I did but I kept messing with it and the whole Webcamoid/AkVCam combination works now.

[hipersayanX]

The vcam should be working fine now.