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akvcam		webcamoid
	Project
2	Mentions	12
576	Stars	2,187
1.6%	Growth	1.0%
6.9	Activity	9.3
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	24 days ago
C	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	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.

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?)
1 project | /r/privacy | 25 Jun 2021

Hopefully it can run under QEMU with a virtual camera like https://github.com/webcamoid/akvcam ?
Is there any fake webcam/microphone software for Linux to pass into a virtual machine?
2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 27 May 2021

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.

webcamoid

Posts with mentions or reviews of webcamoid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-21.

"Cheese" Webcam Alternative
2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 21 Apr 2023
How to create multiple virtual cameras for an app in development?
1 project | /r/webdev | 27 Mar 2023

I have tested OBS's Virtual Camera feature, but it only provides a single virtual camera from what I've tried. I also tested a piece of software called Webcamoid. It was easy to use, but I couldn't get the MediaStream object from it using Tauri on MacOS for some reason, even though it worked when I opened the test app in Chrome instead. I am not sure it would enable multiple instances either.
Shout out to webcamoid - a tool that finally allows to take full advantage of modern webcams
1 project | /r/linux | 23 Mar 2023
Webcam issues
1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 8 Jul 2022

That did not seem to do anything with Cheese, however it lead me down a rabbithole to https://webcamoid.github.io/ with links to virtual camera drivers for "akvcam" and "v4l2loopback" which solved the issue within browser. I installed both, not sure which one was needed.
Wayland is way better but screen sharing ;-;
2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 31 May 2022
Easy to use free webcam software?
1 project | /r/software | 1 Apr 2022

Webcamoid
Was forced to participate in a Facebook Messenger call today.
1 project | /r/privacy | 27 Mar 2022

yes, obs-virtualcam, or this open source thing will do it https://webcamoid.github.io/
Open source alternatives to SnapCamera?
1 project | /r/opensource | 16 Sep 2021
Webcamoid doesn't work
1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 17 Aug 2021

1 project | /r/elementaryos | 17 Aug 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing akvcam and webcamoid you can also consider the following projects:

v4l2loopback - v4l2-loopback device

pyvirtualcam - 🎥 Send frames to a virtual camera from Python

88x2bu - Linux Driver for USB WiFi Adapters that are based on the RTL8812BU and RTL8822BU Chipsets

webcam-capture - The goal of this project is to allow integrated or USB-connected webcams to be accessed directly from Java. Using provided libraries users are able to read camera images and detect motion. Main project consist of several sub projects - the root one, which contains required classes, build-in webcam driver compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS, which can stream images as fast as your camera can serve them (up to 50 FPS). Main project can be used standalone, but user is able to replace build-in driver with different one - such as OpenIMAJ, GStreamer, V4L4j, JMF, LTI-CIVIL, FMJ, etc.

xpadneo - Advanced Linux Driver for Xbox One Wireless Controller (shipped with Xbox One S)

Pion WebRTC - Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API

8821cu - Linux Driver for USB WiFi Adapters that are based on the RTL8811CU, RTL8821CU and RTL8731AU Chipsets

MocapNET - We present MocapNET, a real-time method that estimates the 3D human pose directly in the popular Bio Vision Hierarchy (BVH) format, given estimations of the 2D body joints originating from monocular color images. Our contributions include: (a) A novel and compact 2D pose NSRM representation. (b) A human body orientation classifier and an ensemble of orientation-tuned neural networks that regress the 3D human pose by also allowing for the decomposition of the body to an upper and lower kinematic hierarchy. This permits the recovery of the human pose even in the case of significant occlusions. (c) An efficient Inverse Kinematics solver that refines the neural-network-based solution providing 3D human pose estimations that are consistent with the limb sizes of a target person (if known). All the above yield a 33% accuracy improvement on the Human 3.6 Million (H3.6M) dataset compared to the baseline method (MocapNET) while maintaining real-time performance

8812au-20210629 - Linux Driver for USB WiFi Adapters that are based on the RTL8812AU Chipset - v5.13.6

Screenshare-with-audio-on-Discord-with-Linux - A repo trying to gather all info regarding proper screensharing on Discord with Desktop Audio for linux users

88x2bu-20210702 - Linux Driver for USB WiFi Adapters that are based on the RTL8812BU and RTL8822BU Chipsets - v5.13.1

facetimehd - Reverse engineered Linux driver for the FacetimeHD (Broadcom 1570) PCIe webcam