WindowsSupport

Introduction

Here are discussed some MS Windows specifics.

Building WCS on Windows

• Download the proper static ffmpeg archive for your architecture
• Extract the archive in the appropriate place depending on your Windows (for example in a x86 OS in the C:\Program Files\FFMPEG folder)
• Add the path to the bin subfolder in the PATH environment variable of the system (for example the path C:\Program Files\FFMPEG\bin). You can find more info on how to do this in this article from Microsoft or in this thread.
• Download and install the latest version of the NetBeans IDE

• Checkout the source code of WebcamStudio in a folder. Alternatively you can use this command line:

  svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/webcamstudio/code/trunk webcamstudio-code
  

• Open the project in NetBeans

• Build the project
• The WebcamStudio application is now in the dist folder of the project. You may run it from inside NetBeans, or just move the dist folder somewhere and start the application using this command:

  java.exe -jar WebcamStudio.jar
  

Windows porting issues

There are a couple of specifics for the Windows porting:

1. Even if WebcamStudio is build in Java, the virtual webcam part is not working as it is in Linux. For now, there is no solution implemented in WebcamStudio to provide a virtual webcam for Windows. A possible solution is integrating the virtual webcam from the ucanvcam project.
2. The GUI is mostly working by installing the GStreamer port for Windows.
3. Some DirectShow desktop capture filters that can be used are:
   • UScreenCapture
   • VH Screen Capture Driver, though it uses watermarking
   • A GPL'd filter