Virtual camera in Android

[hipersayanX]

ChangeLog

• New features:

  • Added support for SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE4.1, AVX, AVX2, NEON, SVE, and RVV) with a common interface (AkSimd) for optimized video processing performance.

  • Added 8-bit specialized video conversion functions, optimized for SIMD.

  • Added OpenMP support.

  • Added support for Android TV.

  • Added PipeWire audio support.

  • Added Help option to the main menu.

  • Allow to customize the color scheme of the UI and added default color schemes.

  • Limited the video recording formats and codecs to use only web codecs.
    This make much easier to maintain and fix bugs in video recording, while still maintaining compatibility with many video players.
    The supported formats and codecs are:

    • Webm:
      • video codecs:
        • av1
        • vp9
        • vp8
      • audio codecs:
        • opus
        • vorbis
    • MP4:
      • video codecs:
        • h264
      • audio codecs:
        • aac
        • mp3

  • Added NOCHECKUPDATES option to disable updates check during compilation (issue [Feature request]: Add build switch to disable autoupdate #717).

  • Added VirusTotal scan for uploaded files to give users more confidence and security.

  • Added RISC-V 64 builds for Ubuntu.

  • Added support for SDL 3.

  • Prefer Microsoft Media Foundation over DirectShow for camera capture in Windows.

• Optimizations:
  • Improved desktop capture frame rate in X11/XLibre
  • Optimized logging for better performance.
  • Optimized formats and codec selection for small screens.
  • Improved video synchronization.
  • Reduced the size of the Android packages to fit Google Play limits.
• Bug fixes:
  • Fixed bugs in SDL.
  • Fixed PipeWire plugins with additional checks and improvements.
  • Fixed virtual camera issues in Mac and Windows, including communication via API library (issue When I start Webcamoid I cant use the VirtualCamera #736).
  • Fixed Mac package signing and installation issues.
  • Fixed Android stability issues, including log cleaning, audio recording permissions, video recording, screen capture, and media file handling.
  • Fixed camera format controls and prevented crashes from virtual cameras in Windows.
  • Fixed empty codec descriptions when FFmpeg is optimized for small binaries.
• Improvements in the UI and user experience:
  • Improved video recording API with standardized codec and format options.
  • Added platform information printing for better debugging.
  • Disabled PipeWire (Wayland) screen capture when using X11/XLibre, and viceversa.
• Translations support:
  • Updated translations for German (95.7%), Turkish (53.1%), Estonian (52.8%), Hebrew (73.4%), Dutch (83.9%), and Italian (13.4%) via Weblate.
• Other changes:
  • Disabled librav1e codec in FFmpeg for Windows and linux-mingw version uploads, this codec makes Webcamoid crash when enabled in Windows.
  • Set minimum font point size of 10 for Windows.
  • Disabled QtMultimedia-related plugins for Android.
  • Disabled x86 builds for Android.
  • Removed MultiSink element, using muxers and encoders directly for recording.

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This discussion was created from the release 9.3.0.

[popsy001]

Please where's the Android APK?

[hipersayanX]

Hi, you can download it from here, also working on uploading it to Google Play Store.

[popsy001]

I know but my Card keeps declining each time I try to pay

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[hipersayanX]

Purchase it with Paypal balance, you can also do a github sponsors One-Time payment, cryptos are also welcome, just tell me which one do you prefer and I will send you the package.

[popsy001]

Sorry but can I clone an applications inside the app? Cause I was thinking if it's like this app called Virtual Camera live Assist, although it stopped working recently, if there similar then I would prefer making the payment with crypto

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[hipersayanX]

The virtual camera is not available for Android, only for Linux and Windows.
I have found this open source app that does what your are describing, will check what it does because I'm not sure how it works.
Can you open an issue for this.

[hipersayanX]

Does it actually can replace the camera in the default Android camera or any app as-is, or does it requires any special tweak in the system?

[popsy001]

Well yes it replaces the camera in any app, thereby giving you an option to replace the default camera in the cloned app with a picture or any video from your phone storage

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On Sat, 2 Aug 2025, 00:47 hipersayanX, ***@***.***> wrote: Does it actually can replace the camera in the default Android camera or any app as-is, or does it requires any special tweak in the system? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#746 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BSCAZCPB4YIR4MHEOOUOQOD3LP4CJAVCNFSM6AAAAACCSQYIWSVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTGOJWGU4TSOI> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[popsy001]

So this is what the app looks like, it has a virtual space for cloning the app you wanna go live with, then replaces your camera with a picture or a video or a video stream (You will have to input the video stream link) in the app you cloned

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On Sat, 2 Aug 2025, 01:00 Amos Praise, ***@***.***> wrote: Well yes it replaces the camera in any app, thereby giving you an option to replace the default camera in the cloned app with a picture or any video from your phone storage On Sat, 2 Aug 2025, 00:47 hipersayanX, ***@***.***> wrote: > Does it actually can replace the camera in the default Android camera or > any app as-is, or does it requires any special tweak in the system? > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#746 (reply in thread)>, > or unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BSCAZCPB4YIR4MHEOOUOQOD3LP4CJAVCNFSM6AAAAACCSQYIWSVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTGOJWGU4TSOI> > . > You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: > ***@***.***> >

[hipersayanX]

I have created the issue #750.

[hipersayanX]

Looks pretty much limited and complex, based on a quick analysis of the AI 🤔

[popsy001]

So do you think you can recreate something like that?

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On Sat, 2 Aug 2025, 02:48 hipersayanX, ***@***.***> wrote: Looks pretty much limited and complex, based on a quick analysis of the AI <https://chatgpt-com.translate.goog/share/688d6bf0-0760-8006-804b-172c8e129a66?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=es-419&_x_tr_pto=wapp> 🤔 — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#746 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BSCAZCJRXZG3KYZMUYIWTNL3LQKFLAVCNFSM6AAAAACCSQYIWSVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTGOJWGY3DGMY> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[hipersayanX]

Points to consider:

• The workflow is totally different from the desktop. In the desktop, you create a virtual device, then open the other program independly. Here, you select an application, then launch it sandboxed from inside Webcamoid. The apps can still seen as an independent apps?
• If the AI is right and not hallucinating, you need the APK of the app to sandbox, but the default system camera has not an APK, Whatsapp does not have an APK, any app downloaded from the Play Store does not have an APK. Then how how I supposed to sandbox a system app?
• Those two example apps apparently were available in the Play Store but not anymore, and considering that you are running a third-party app from your own, this can be considered as a high security risk, newer Android versions could have tightened the security measures to prevent this feature. This is just my guess, but could this the reason because those apps are not being developed anymore and removed from the Play Store?
• There does not seems to be any other apps for Android providing the "virtual camera" feature anywhere else, which makes me think that these are just experiments which a very short life time until Google tighten security even more.

I can try making some sandboxing experiments outside Webcamoid tree, but I don't promise nothing, I and I don't have much faith on this.
For me, it looks more promising to put the focus in streaming rather than the virtual camera.

[popsy001]

Thanks for the feedback.

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On Sat, 2 Aug 2025, 17:27 hipersayanX, ***@***.***> wrote: Points to consider: - The workflow is totally different from the desktop. In the desktop, you create a virtual device, then open the other program independly. Here, you select an application, then launch it sandboxed from inside Webcamoid. The apps can still seen as an independent apps? - If the AI is right and not hallucinating, you need the APK of the app to sandbox, but the default system camera has not an APK, Whatsapp does not have an APK, any app downloaded from the Play Store does not have an APK. Then how how I supposed to sandbox a system app - Those two example apps apparently were available in the Play Store but not anymore, and considering that you are running a third-party app from your own, this can be considered as a high security risk, newer Android versions could have tightened the security measures to prevent this feature. This is just my guess, but could this the reason because those apps are not being developed anymore and removed from the Play Store? - There does not seems to be any other apps for Android providing the "virtual camera" feature anywhere else, which makes me think that these are just experiments which a very short life time until Google tighten security even more. I can try making some sandboxing experiments outside Webcamoid tree, but I don't promise nothing, I and I don't have much faith on this. For me, it looks more promising to put the focus in streaming rather than the virtual camera. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#746 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BSCAZCKDBXOTZB2RTZNODDD3LTRIBAVCNFSM6AAAAACCSQYIWSVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTGOJXGA4DANA> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>