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akvirtualcamera, virtual camera for Mac and Windows
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Can't find documentation for installation and command line options #9

Closed Costor closed 3 years ago

Costor commented 3 years ago

Hi, I have installed akvirtualcamera as part of webcmoid. Now I also want to use it as stand alone virtual camera for Windows.
Is it already available as a standalone package? If yes - I just cant find the the installation documentation (the Wiki just links back, and the webcamoid wiki gives no information on akvirtualcamera specifically).

I also can't find documentation of the command line arguments and usage. From issue #3 I can see some installation and usage, but that is potentially much to less to use it to its full potential.

Any sourcce I'm missing and where I can read into?

Thanks, Costor

hipersayanX commented 3 years ago

Any sourcce I'm missing and where I can read into?

The camera is not finished yet, I won't publish any documentation or release until I can confirm that everything is working more or less fine. I'm working on this right now.

Is it already available as a standalone package?

Yes, this program is independent of Webcamoid and you can use it to write your own front end, or use it directly from the command line.

I also can't find documentation of the command line arguments and usage.

For creating a vcam it is:

AkVCamManager add-device "My virtual camera"

; It will return some device ID like 'AkVCamVideoDevice0'. Then:

AkVCamManager add-format AkVCamVideoDevice0 RGB24 640 480 30
AkVCamManager update

And for streaming:

ffmpeg -i video.webm -f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb24 -s 640x480 - | AkVCamManager stream AkVCamVideoDevice0 RGB24 640 480
markednmbr1 commented 3 years ago

Hi @hipersayanX - I can't find AKVCamManager in Webcamoid installation, only AkVCamAssistant - These don't seem to handle the same commands. Is AkVCamManager only part of akvirtualcamera which isn't built in to webcamoid?

hipersayanX commented 3 years ago

@markednmbr1 Webcamoid 8.8.0 only has the old driver since it was made with the purpose of fixing a Windows bug, and I did not wanted to spend much time in that release. The manager is in the daily build, and the source code is in the master branch of akvirtualcamera. You can test the new driver with Webcamoid daily build only .

hipersayanX commented 3 years ago

I've added all the documentation needed for using the vcam. Closing.