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The examples in https://github.com/webcamoid/akvcam/wiki/Usage-and-examples look the same as the command lines for v4l2loopback. Maybe it can just be used as drop-in replacement for v4l2loopback?

I wonder if this can be solved by converting the RGB numpy array to YUV and keep using pyfakewebcam. chrome and chromium should behave the same, except for some Google...

pyfakewebcam does exactly this, see https://github.com/jremmons/pyfakewebcam/blob/master/pyfakewebcam/pyfakewebcam.py

What framerate do you achieve? I think chrome only recognizes cams that provide a certain framerate like 5 fps or so. This may be a cause for problems with chrome....

Interesting thread and linked issues, but I see no clear resolution either. Some posts sound like it could be an issue with the driver version (I am using debian testing...

Do you want to open an issue in the pyfakewebcam project? Maybe more users can profit from pyfakewebcam supporting akvcam as well.

I first want to test akvcam myself. I got the kernel module working, now I need to experiment with client code.

I did only try it on debian testing yet. When your code snippet is working, I can probably integrate it. @drjerk1 should probably add a license to this post or...

@drjerk1 Are there some projects that can already be used? I am still thinking if it should be integrated into pyfakewebcam or a fork of it.

Your user account needs read/write access to the devices. Depending on your Distribution they should be owned by group `video` and you can add your user account to the group....