akvcam
akvcam, virtual camera for Linux (by webcamoid)
v4l2loopback
v4l2-loopback device (by umlaeute)
akvcam | v4l2loopback | |
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2 | 28 | |
576 | 3,527 | |
1.6% | - | |
6.9 | 8.2 | |
about 1 month ago | 16 days ago | |
C | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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akvcam
Posts with mentions or reviews of akvcam.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-27.
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According to this article Windows 11 is now requiring laptops to have a front facing camera. (Why is that a requirement to install an OS?)
Hopefully it can run under QEMU with a virtual camera like https://github.com/webcamoid/akvcam ?
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Is there any fake webcam/microphone software for Linux to pass into a virtual machine?
https://github.com/webcamoid/akvcam I found it on github. I did not found anything to emulate a microphone. I will try to fork it and customize it to emulate microphone. Because our online exams are conduting in a spying environment through Lockdown browser.
v4l2loopback
Posts with mentions or reviews of v4l2loopback.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-31.
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Installing v4l2loopback in asahi-linux edge kernel
I am relatively new to linux, so pardon if this is a newbie question. I want to install the v4l2loopback module to 6.3.0-asahi-8-1-edge-ARCH. When I manually compile from https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback, and attempt to install, I obtain a vermagic and kernel version mismatch. Running modinfo:
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Is there a way (plugin or something?) to output the gcode viewer to an rtsp stream?
If you want to stream your webcam as an H264 encoded rtsp stream, it can be done with either rtsp-simple-server or V4l2rtspserver And it is possible to stream a linux desktop (and any program that might be open, like your web browser with the gcode viewer running on it) with the V4l2Loopback device and either of the two prgrams above. It is quite an involved process, but it is do-able.
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VToonify: Controllable High-Resolution Portrait Video Style Transfer
https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback
Effectively these let an app (eg some VToonify tool) generate content that from the perspective of your live streaming app look like they are from a webcam
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create a live webcam stream, that can be shared
note: want to get extra fancy and use random sources or have multiple streams use a single webcam source?? check into v4l2loopback -- https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback
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[HELP] I would like to know if you can create a virtual camera on Android.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E89XQXrA_tI (which uses this)
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Fake Cam doesn't work
I'm trying to install Linux-Fake-Background-Webcam, which in turn requires 4l2loopback. Following the 4l2loopback manual, I try the following command to install it:
- Using a Canon EOS camera as a webcam in Debian
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Using Sony camera (a6500) as a webcam in Ubuntu 20.04 - Working fine
Download the last version bash wget https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback/archive/refs/tags/v0.12.5.tar.gz
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Is it possible for Linux mint to use an Android (11) as a webcam?
scrcpy and v4l2loopback works well
- v4l2loopback not working on other kernels
What are some alternatives?
When comparing akvcam and v4l2loopback you can also consider the following projects:
webcamoid - Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform webcam suite.
pyvirtualcam - 🎥 Send frames to a virtual camera from Python