Can I send some pull requests? about akvirtualcamera HOT 5 CLOSED

Is the Manager folder the sample application? What do you have in mind for it?

My idea with the manager is create, edit, remove the cameras, get usage information, and change properties like brightness, contrast, mirroring scaling and so on. I was planning to copy some options from v4l2-ctl, those options that are useful to me and discard those that are not.
In general, the development stages for the driver will be more or less:

• Split up the virtual camera code from Webcamoid ✔️
• Make it compile ✔️
• Fix install paths ✔️
• Create the installers ⬅️
• Upload the first daily builds
• Adopt an capture/output device scheme similar to what I did with akvcam
• Improve logging system and allow log levels similar to akvcam.
• Remove the old virtual camera code from Webcamoid.
• Adapt Webcamoid to the new scheme.
• Write the documentation.
• Release

My idea is to decouple the virtual camera from Webcamoid, and this time neither Webcamoid and neither the manager will install or uninstall the plugins, that responsibility will go to the installer or the package manager.

Would you mind if I try to implement something?

I'm not sure what directions I can give you, since there are things I have decided and other things I've not.

Also, it would be good to have CMake support too, Qt itself is switching to cmake and it will be used to build Qt6.

I've read about that, but until they does not make it official and the de facto build system, I won't change Qmake, and anyway we have a lot of time before Qt6 get adopted widely.

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My idea is to decouple the virtual camera from Webcamoid, and this time neither Webcamoid and neither the manager will install or uninstall the plugins, that responsibility will go to the installer or the package manager.

My platform is macOS, I could test something but not sure yet what you mean with the package installer. In this repository we have code for Windows and macOS. Windows is common to have an exe or msi installer, are you thinking of pkg for macOS? I noticed currently the code install the camera with apple scripts generated on runtime.

Would you mind if I try to implement something?

I'm not sure what directions I can give you, since there are things I have decided and other things I've not.

I could also jumpstart the manager a little bit of the command line parsing.

Also, it would be good to have CMake support too, Qt itself is switching to cmake and it will be used to build Qt6.

I've read about that, but until they does not make it official and the de facto build system, I won't change Qmake, and anyway we have a lot of time before Qt6 get adopted widely.

Maybe just for akvirtualcamera since it would be a library useful for other projects. Anyway, the cmake decision on the Qt project is official, they are actually moving the Coin build system to cmake at the moment, you can already build the dev branch with cmake using configure -cmake

I could create the CMakeLists files if you would like me to. Protobuf for example supports cmake as an alternative inside a cmake folder.

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My platform is macOS, I could test something but not sure yet what you mean with the package installer.

I'll use Qt installer framework, but you can also create a homebrew package and install/uninstall from there.

I could also jumpstart the manager a little bit of the command line parsing.

Ok, give me a draft for the command lines options.

I could create the CMakeLists files if you would like me to. Protobuf for example supports cmake as an alternative inside a cmake folder.

Ok, this is a small repository, so we can try.

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I was just going to use QCommandLineParser then I realised, do you want manager to be free of Qt as a dependency?

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Yes, it will be Qt and other third party libraries free, it must not have dependencies with anything else beside system provided native libraries.

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