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 and vp8
+ audio codecs: opus and vorbis
MP4:
+ video codecs: h264
+ audio codecs: aac and mp3
* Added NOCHECKUPDATES option to disable updates check
during compilation.
* Added RISC-V 64 builds for Ubuntu.
* Added support for SDL 3.
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.
Bug fixes:
* Fixed bugs in SDL.
* Fixed PipeWire plugins with additional checks and
improvements.
* 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:
* Removed MultiSink element, using muxers and encoders
directly for recording.
version 9.2.4:
* Added NOCHECKUPDATES option for disable updates check when
compiling.
* Enabled VLC support again.
- Drop webcamoid-disable_autoupdate.patch (merged upstream)
- Add webcamoid-link_pipewire_libs.patch
- Add webcamoid-fix_ppc64_detection.patch
- Fix i586 build on Tumbleweed
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/webcamoid?expand=0&rev=43
* Misc non-linux changes
version 9.2.0:
* Webcamoid ported to Qt6.
* Added PipeWire video capture support.
* Added Xlib screen capture plugin.
* Added desktop capture using FFmpeg.
* Added option to show or hide the mouse cursor on screen
capture.
* Qt screen capture plugin is now using QScreenCapture.
* Added ColorKey plugin.
* Added support for extended controls in V4L2.
* Attend to screen orientation.
* Fixed ARM 64 packages.
* Fixed saving the selected camera format.
* Added a debug log to the preferences dialog.
* Added options for enabling/disabling interprocess
optimizations.
* Do not show the video outputs if the virtual camera is not
supported.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/webcamoid?expand=0&rev=39
- Update to version 9.1.0
* Redesigned UI to work in smaler screens.
* Now providing ARM packages for GNU/Linux.
* Allow using an image file as video source.
* Full support for screen readers and keyboard navigation.
* Added image capture to clipboard.
* Added PortAudio and SDL as alternative audio device plugins.
* Added QCamera as alternative camera capture plugin.
* Added FFmpeg screen capture support.
* The virtual camera from GNU/Linux can also be installed in
non x86 platforms.
* video synchronization can be enebled/disabled on playback.
* New video Effects: AnalogTV, Zoom, Crop, Opacity.
* Removed Scale and Scroll video effects.
* PrimariesColors plugin renamed to Saturated.
* Improved virtual camera detection. Webcamoid will only offer
akvcam or AkVirtualCamera in the only case no other virtual
camera was installed, or in the case it was manually selected.
* Allow positioning Webcamoid widow on any screen.
* Added uninstall target in cmake build to aid development
cycles.
* Fixed virtual camera install in GNU/Linux.
* Translation files are not embeded in the binary, more
translations can be added and tested without recompiling.
* Fixed ALSA deices reading.
* Properly save enabled and disabled plugins.
- Drop webcamoid-manpath.patch and webcamoid-ffmpeg5.patch
(merged upstream)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1092208
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/webcamoid?expand=0&rev=35
- Update to version 9.0.0
* Now Qt 5.15 is the minimum required version.
* More modern UI redesign.
* Now the default theme can adapt to the current color scheme
of the system.
* Switched build system to CMake.
* Redesigned plugins system to a more expandable one.
* Photos and videos are saved in their default folders, and
its also user customizable.
* You can now open the last photo taken and the last video
recorded from Webcamoid.
* Added support for screen capturing in PipeWire/Wayland.
* Added VLC as video playback backend.
* The virtual camera is now fully customizable (format,
resolution, default picture, etc.).
* Improved error messages for the virtual camera.
* Add face tracking plugin.
* Add appstream data.
* Fixed privilege escalation when creating the virtual camera.
* Added support for background image replacement in FaceDetect
plugin.
* Fixed default masks rendering when selecting an image from
file system.
* Added more options to the FaceDetect plugin.
* Added support for FFmpeg 5.0.
* Fixed video recording with FFmpeg.
* Added Otsu threshold, and other video effects plugins.
* Improved FalseColor plugin UI.
* Optimized Charify plugin.
* Added donations links for people who wants to support the
project.
- Drop webcamoid-gcc11.patch (no longer useful)
- Add webcamoid-manpath.patch
- Drop devel subpackage
- Link against pipewire, spa, libusb and vlc
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/955370
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/webcamoid?expand=0&rev=30
- Update to version 8.6.1
* AppImage now properly show the icon (issue #94).
* Use correct subdir for manpage (issue #170, thanks Luigi
Baldoni!).
- Dropped webcamoid-mandir.patch (merged upstream)
- Drop the qimageblitz dependency. Unused since 5.0.0.
- Drop the Frei0r dependency. Unused since 5.1.0.
- Fix the old description 'KDE' is the community, 'plasmoid' is no longer used.
- Ensure neutrality of description.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/688603
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/webcamoid?expand=0&rev=8
- Update to version 8.6.0
* Now webcam settings are saved.
* Enabled secondary plugins, and fixed segfaults and memleaks
in GStreamer.
* Fixed segfaults and memory leaks in MacOS.
* Fixed GIF playback in FFmpeg.
* Build now support MSYS2.
* Added static analysis with Codacy.
* Fixed manpage install.
* Install paths now follow Qt install paths structure.
- Added webcamoid-mandir.patch
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/681904
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/webcamoid?expand=0&rev=15
- Update to version 8.5.0
* UI ported to QtQuick Controls 2.
* Reworked virtual camera for GNU/Linux, Mac and Windows.
* Qt 5.9.0 as minimum requirement.
* Faster build and smaller binaries.
* Added build info.
* Fixed crash and many other bugs in FreeBSD.
* Added support for Microsoft Media Foundation capture.
* Fixed shadow build.
* Added support for FFmpeg 4.0.
* Fixed bug when reading/setting webcam controls.
* Added support for akvcam, default in-house virtual camera
solution for GNU/Linux.
* Fixed rendering problems in Mac.
* Added support for FreeBSD in deploy scripts.
* Fixed many bugs when recording audio and video.
* Default recording video bitrate is now 1.5Mbps.
* Fixed audio support in Windows.
* Removed 'su' and 'sudo' as root method when installing the
virtual camera in GNU/Linux.
* Removed Syphon support for Mac.
* Improved translations.
- Dropped webcamoid-8.1.0-ffmpeg4.patch (no longer necessary)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/667775
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:apps/webcamoid?expand=0&rev=13
