WebcamStudio For GNU/Linux Wiki

A multifeatured virtual webcam software to broadcast over the Internet

Status: Beta

Brought to you by: ekatrukha, karl-ellis, naurd, owenm, phobosk

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** This project is no longer maintained by Patrick Balleux... **

** Currently we are looking for: **

Java developers to help in the coding of the project.
Designers to help in the designing of the UI, themes, icons etc of the project.
Translators to help in the translation of the UI and user documentation of the project.

WebcamStudio is a multifeatured virtual webcam software that can be used with Skype or a flash website like UStream, to create a professional looking broadcast, including banners, animations, transit animations and icons, etc...

This tool is not meant as a video editor but as a live video mixer giving you the possibilities to change the look of the broadcast on the fly.

Features

Some of the features include:
- Switch webcams on a single click
- Show an IRC channel in your video broadcast
- Broadcast your desktop for creation of nice HOWTO's
- Be creative and put animations and banners
- Display what song is currently played by Rhythmbox
- Co-host a remote friend, show his webcam inside your output (PicInPic)
- Connect to WeatherBug and display your current weather
- Apply some fancy effects on each source
- Have a green wall, then why not use the ChromaKey effect to do the same as the weather man on the news network
- Use all kinds of devices as webcamera like a MiniDV, your iPhone, etc....

More features to come.

News

You can find all news about our project on the News page here.

Notes

This project here on SourceForge is the main place where all the development of WebcamStudio happens. So it is the main source of info for the project.
The Google Code homepage is only for reference to older versions, bugs, screenshots etc. It is not actively maintained, and since Google is shutting down Google Code it will disappear in January 2016, so please use our SourceForge homepage here.
The original homepage of WebcamStudio is kept for reference to older announcements, forums etc. It is not actively maintained by Patrick Balleux considering the WebcamStudio project, so again please use our SourceForge homepage here.

Reporting bugs

Please report all your bugs using the Tickets page here.

When reporting bugs, please include:
- OS
- WebcamStudio version/revision that you use
- Java version
- Webcamera vendor, model and version
- For Linux users - output from "sudo lsusb"
- What were you doing when the bug appeared
- Is the bug reproducible and the steps to reproduce it

Ubuntu users

For all Ubuntu (and derivatives) users, you may find our packages in our Launchpad PPAs:
- Stable Ubuntu builds
- Daily Ubuntu builds (Testing)

Interesting links

Here are some wiki pages that you can find interesting:
- IRC Channel for communication - #webcamstudio on irc.freenode.net (click the link for using the web interface)
- WebcamStudio
- How you can help WebcamStudio
- WebcamStudio Screenshots
- WebcamStudio Video demos
- Translating WebcamStudio
- Philosophy
- VLoopback
- Look for more links in the sidebar of this page...

WebcamStudio Team

You can find who is working on this project by visiting our WebcamStudio Team wiki page.

Older links

Here are some links that are kept for historical reasons if you need to check older issues, code, forums etc. Please have in mind that these links are no more updated and may be even missing.
- Old homepage for the project
- Old forum and help
- Old screenshots
- Old video demos