webcamoid
Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform webcam suite. (by webcamoid)
facetimehd
Reverse engineered Linux driver for the FacetimeHD (Broadcom 1570) PCIe webcam (by patjak)
| webcamoid | facetimehd | |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | 44 | |
| 2,187 | 1,315 | |
| 1.0% | - | |
| 9.3 | 3.7 | |
| 25 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C++ | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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
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How to create multiple virtual cameras for an app in development?
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
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Webcam issues
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 ;-;
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Easy to use free webcam software?
Webcamoid
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Was forced to participate in a Facebook Messenger call today.
yes, obs-virtualcam, or this open source thing will do it https://webcamoid.github.io/
- Open source alternatives to SnapCamera?
- Webcamoid doesn't work
facetimehd
Posts with mentions or reviews of facetimehd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-14.
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I just switched to Fedora 39
Install webcam driver from this repo: https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd
- facetime hd camera on ubuntu 22.04 LTS
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Constantly In The Loop Of Distro Hopping Having A Fustrating Experience Getting My 2015 Macbook Pro To Fully Work On Linux
You can try this one but it probably won't work https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd
- MacBook facetimehd driver isn't working - Fedora
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Installing Debian on a Macbook
IIRC, I made a couple changes to the login config file to enable sleep on lid close. Followed the official page to setup the WiFi driver, and this for the webcam. You might want to check out setting up DKMS for the drivers. Early on I couldn't figure out why updating the kernel causes my WiFi driver to cease working, that was the solution I found.
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"Cheese" Webcam Alternative
Have you installed any driver for your webcam? If you haven’t, you can try facetimehd driver in github.
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Using Linux Mint as Main OS on 2015 Macbook Pro
I am currently using Debian on my MacBook Air. The broadcom wifi card driver is not in the official repository so I had to use an external wifi dongle when first installing the OS. You might also encounter issues with the webcam, so this link might help. I am also using mbpfan to help with heating issues. Other than that, I haven't had any issues.
- Fedora 36 on a mid-2015 Macbook Pro; flawless!
- Installing Linux on an Apple laptop... required to dual boot with MacOS to keep current?
- Stuck on "Try Ubuntu" and "Install Ubuntu" page on Mac.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing webcamoid and facetimehd you can also consider the following projects:
pyvirtualcam - 🎥 Send frames to a virtual camera from Python
facetimehd-firmware - FacetimeHD firmware download and extraction tool
akvcam - akvcam, virtual camera for Linux
macbook12-spi-driver - WIP input driver for the SPI touchpad / keyboard found in the 12" MacBook (MacBook8,1 + MacBook9,1)