Unable to find virtual camera on M1 Mac (Chrome, Firefox, Zoom)

[mattrossman]

Summary

After installing the latest AkVirtualCamera .pkg on my M1 Mac and following the configuration guide, I am unable to see the virtual camera in any client applications.

Current Behavior

In the browser, I use https://webcamtests.com/ to enumerate available cameras. I only see my existing cameras here, I don't see the new virtual camera. I have tested this in the latest Chrome and Firefox. I don't see the new virtual camera in Zoom either.

Expected Behavior

I should see some virtual camera listing appear here, at least with the default "no signal" dots pattern.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Download and install the 9.1.0 .pkg
2. Open a terminal
3. Configure a virtual camera as follows:

$ alias AkVCamManager=/Applications/AkVirtualCamera/AkVirtualCamera.plugin/Contents/Resources/AkVCamManager

$ AkVCamManager add-device "AkVirtualCamera"
Device created as AkVCamVideoDevice0

$ AkVCamManager add-format AkVCamVideoDevice0 YUY2 640 480 30

$ AkVCamManager update

5. Restart Chrome and navigate to https://webcamtests.com/ granting permission as needed
6. Inspect dropdown of detected devices

Suggestions and tips

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Your Environment

• akvirtualcamera inormation: 9.1.0 for Mac
• Operating System information: MacOS 12.6.1 Monterey, Apple M1 Pro
• Any other useful information: (below)

I have other virtual camera applications installed such as OBS Virtual Camera, I'm not sure if that would cause some conflict.

Output of AkVCamManager dump

```xml AkVCamVideoDevice0 AkVirtualCamera YUY2 640 480 30/1 RGB32 640 480 30/1 RGB24 640 480 30/1 hflip Horizontal Mirror Boolean 0 1 1 0 0 vflip Vertical Mirror Boolean 0 1 1 0 0 scaling Scaling Menu 0 1 1 0 0 Fast Linear aspect_ratio Aspect Ratio Menu 0 2 1 0 0 Ignore Keep Expanding swap_rgb Swap RGB Boolean 0 1 1 0 0 RGB24 RGB24 RGB32 RGB24 UYVY YUY2 YUY2 -1 ```

Other things I have tried

• I tried building and installing from source, with the same result
• I verified that sudo launchctl list includes an entry for org.webcamoid.cmio.AkVCam.Assistant
• I tried adding another format set to RGB24 per the suggestion in #36
• I tried changing the fallback picture with AkVCamManager set-picture
• I tried restarting the browser and Zoom applications
• I checked the output of AkVCamManager clients while enumerating media devices in the browser, I don't see anything in the output

[hipersayanX]

The pkg is for x86_64 not for ARM M1, it won't work there.

I tried building and installing from source, with the same result

Run /Applications/AkVirtualCamera/uninstall.sh for uninstalling everything you have installed from the pkg. When you compiled from the source, you probably did not linked the plugin or the plist file was not properly set.

[mattrossman]

Interestingly, I tried building from source before I tried the pkg installation, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't a conflict from the pkg install.

However, I just ran the uninstall script and re-tried the source build. It works! I don't know what I did differently this time 🙃 but I won't question it. I wish there was some error message that could explain what wasn't working before.

[hipersayanX]

I'll try later to add a M1 build and mark the architecture of the installer, but just in case, I don't have a M1 Mac to test it, so I can't go much further than that.