pyvirtualcam

Changed

• Support numpy 2.

Removed

• Drop Python 3.8 support.

Added

• macOS arm64 support (Python 3.10 and higher).

Added

• Python 3.12 support.

Removed

• Drop Python 3.7 support.

Added

• Python 3.11 support.

Fixed

• macOS: Fix performance on M1 (#99).

Added

• macOS: OBS 28 support (#95).

Removed

• macOS: Drop OBS 26 / 27 support.

Fixed

• macOS: Python 3.10 wheel was incorrectly named (universal2 instead of x86_64)

Added

• Python 3.10 support.

Removed

• Drop Python 3.6 support.

Fixed

• Linux: Close opened devices if device is not given (#59)

Added

• Windows: Unity Capture virtual camera with RGBA support (#56).
• gif_rgba.py sample for showing transparent GIFs in RGBA format.

Removed

• delay argument of Camera has been removed (deprecated since 0.4.0).

Added

• API documentation.
• pyvirtualcam.register_backend() for registering custom backends.
• latency.py sample for visually evaluating latency.
• --filter flag in webcam_filter.py sample for choosing a filter (shake or none).

Added

• Support for device selection on Linux: Camera(..., device="/dev/video0"). On Windows/macOS there is only a single valid device "OBS Virtual Camera" when using the built-in backends.
• Support for common pixel formats: RGB (default), BGR (useful for OpenCV), GRAY, I420, NV12, YUYV, UYVY.
• New properties Camera.fmt (input format) and Camera.native_fmt (native format).

Removed

• RGBA support has been removed. Use RGB instead.

Added

• Linux: multiple camera support (#37).
• If print_fps=True and Camera.sleep_until_next_frame() is used, the percentage of time spent in computation is printed in addition to fps.

Changed

• macOS/Windows: raise error if OBS virtual camera is not installed.

Fixed

• macOS: camera was not correctly cleaned up after use (#39).
• macOS: an error is now raised if the camera is already in use outside of the current process (#39).

Added

• macOS support via OBS Virtual Camera (built-in) (#16).
• Linux support via v4l2loopback (#29).
• RGB frame support (in addition to RGBA).
• Camera.device property containing the name of the virtual camera device.
• New sample: send video frames to virtual camera (#9).

Changed

• Windows support relies on OBS Virtual Camera (built-in) now. Support for OBS-VirtualCam has been removed (#25).

Deprecated

• RGBA frame format. Use RGB instead.
• delay argument of Camera is deprecated and has no effect.

Fixed

• Sending a frame with incorrect width or height now raises an exception instead of crashing (#17).

Changed

• PEP8.

Fixed

• Prevent adaptive sleep from overshooting (#1).
• Return type annotation of Camera.fps was incorrect.

Fixed

• Fixed resource cleanup issue preventing Camera to be used more than once (#5).

Added

• Python 3.9 support.

Added

• FPS counter.
• Adaptive sleep using Camera.sleep_until_next_frame().
• Minimal example.

Changed

• API re-design.

Removed

• Drop Python 3.5 support.

Fixed

• Add missing numpy dependency.

Added

• First release.
• Windows only, Python 3.5 - 3.8.
• Support for OBS-VirtualCam.