Good day guys.
I have been trying for hours to get droidcam to work. Droidcam is a software that can use your cellphone as a webcam. very neat and handy if there is a shortage in webcams where you live.
I will give as much info as I can on my system and what I have done.
[ferret@ferret-ms7b07 ~]$ neofetch
**██████████████████ ████████ ferret@ferret-ms7b07 **
**██████████████████ ████████ -------------------- **
**██████████████████ ████████ OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64 **
**██████████████████ ████████ Host: MS-7B07 1.0 **
**████████ ████████ Kernel: 5.8.3-2-MANJARO **
**████████ ████████ ████████ Uptime: 8 hours, 16 mins **
**████████ ████████ ████████ Packages: 1322 (pacman) **
**████████ ████████ ████████ Shell: bash 5.0.18 **
**████████ ████████ ████████ Resolution: 1366x768 **
**████████ ████████ ████████ DE: Xfce 4.14 **
**████████ ████████ ████████ WM: Xfwm4 **
**████████ ████████ ████████ WM Theme: Matcha-sea **
**████████ ████████ ████████ Theme: Adwaita-dark [GTK2], Adwaita [GTK3] **
████████ ████████ ████████ Icons: Papirus-Maia [GTK2], Adwaita [GTK3] **
** Terminal: xfce4-terminal **
** Terminal Font: Monospace 12 **
** CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G (4) @ 3.175GHz **
** GPU: AMD ATI 29:00.0 Picasso **
** Memory: 1606MiB / 3440MiB
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[ferret@ferret-ms7b07 ~]$
That is my system
I have been following info on
droidcam/linux at master · aramg/droidcam · GitHub
GitHub - umlaeute/v4l2loopback: v4l2-loopback device
libjpeg-turbo/BUILDING.md at 2.0.5 · libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo · GitHub
[ferret@ferret-ms7b07 ~]$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
v4l2loopback 45056 0
videodev 274432 1 v4l2loopback
fuse 139264 3
snd_usb_audio 315392 2
snd_usbmidi_lib 40960 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 45056 1 snd_usbmidi_lib
mousedev 24576 0
snd_seq_device 16384 1 snd_rawmidi
mc 61440 2 videodev,snd_usb_audio
rfkill 28672 2
joydev 28672 0
input_leds 16384 0
squashfs 69632 0
loop 36864 0
edac_mce_amd 32768 0
kvm 847872 0
amdgpu 5853184 8
irqbypass 16384 1 kvm
crct10dif_pclmul 16384 1
crc32_pclmul 16384 0
ghash_clmulni_intel 16384 0
aesni_intel 372736 0
wmi_bmof 16384 0
crypto_simd 16384 1 aesni_intel
nls_iso8859_1 16384 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 139264 1
nls_cp437 20480 1
snd_hda_codec_generic 98304 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
cryptd 24576 2 crypto_simd,ghash_clmulni_intel
vfat 24576 1
ledtrig_audio 16384 2 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 73728 1
glue_helper 16384 1 aesni_intel
fat 86016 1 vfat
rapl 16384 0
snd_hda_intel 57344 3
gpu_sched 40960 1 amdgpu
snd_intel_dspcfg 24576 1 snd_hda_intel
i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 amdgpu
pcspkr 16384 0
snd_hda_codec 167936 4 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek
ttm 122880 1 amdgpu
snd_hda_core 106496 5 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_realtek
sp5100_tco 20480 0
snd_hwdep 16384 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
i2c_piix4 28672 0
drm_kms_helper 262144 1 amdgpu
k10temp 16384 0
tpm_crb 20480 0
snd_pcm 147456 5 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_core
cec 73728 1 drm_kms_helper
r8169 98304 0
tpm_tis 16384 0
rc_core 61440 1 cec
ccp 118784 0
realtek 24576 1
snd_timer 45056 1 snd_pcm
tpm_tis_core 32768 1 tpm_tis
syscopyarea 16384 1 drm_kms_helper
libphy 151552 2 r8169,realtek
snd 114688 22 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi
sysfillrect 16384 1 drm_kms_helper
soundcore 16384 1 snd
tpm 77824 3 tpm_tis,tpm_crb,tpm_tis_core
sysimgblt 16384 1 drm_kms_helper
fb_sys_fops 16384 1 drm_kms_helper
rng_core 16384 2 ccp,tpm
gpio_amdpt 20480 0
pinctrl_amd 32768 0
evdev 28672 16
wmi 36864 1 wmi_bmof
mac_hid 16384 0
drm 589824 8 gpu_sched,drm_kms_helper,amdgpu,ttm
uinput 20480 0
agpgart 53248 2 ttm,drm
crypto_user 16384 0
ip_tables 36864 0
x_tables 53248 1 ip_tables
uas 32768 0
usb_storage 77824 1 uas
btrfs 1523712 2
blake2b_generic 20480 0
libcrc32c 16384 1 btrfs
crc32c_generic 16384 0
xor 24576 1 btrfs
hid_generic 16384 0
usbhid 65536 0
hid 143360 2 usbhid,hid_generic
raid6_pq 122880 1 btrfs
crc32c_intel 24576 3
xhci_pci 20480 0
xhci_pci_renesas 20480 1 xhci_pci
xhci_hcd 286720 1 xhci_pci
[ferret@ferret-ms7b07 ~]$
The loopback is there.
[ferret@ferret-ms7b07 ~]$ sudo pacman -Q libjpeg
**[sudo] password for ferret: **
libjpeg-turbo 2.0.5-1
[ferret@ferret-ms7b07 ~]$
Libjpeg-turbo is installed
[ferret@ferret-ms7b07 linux]$ pwd
/home/ferret/Downloads/droidcam-1.4/linux
[ferret@ferret-ms7b07 linux]$ make
g++ -std=c++11 -x c++ -Wall -fPIC -no-pie src/droidcam-cli.c src/connection.c src/settings.c src/decoder.c src/decoder_snd.c src/decoder_v4l2.c src/av.c src/usb.c -I/opt/libjpeg-turbo/include /opt/libjpeg-turbo/libgetconf LONG_BIT
/libturbojpeg.a pkg-config --libs --cflags libswscale libavutil
-lspeex -lasound -lpthread -lm -lusbmuxd -o droidcam-cli
g++: error: /opt/libjpeg-turbo/lib64/libturbojpeg.a: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:37: droidcam-cli] Error 1
[ferret@ferret-ms7b07 linux]$
I still get this error
I think it might have something to do with the dependencies because when I try to install dependencies:
[ferret@ferret-ms7b07 ~]$ sudo pacman -S libavutil-dev
**[sudo] password for ferret: **
error: target not found: libavutil-dev
[ferret@ferret-ms7b07 ~]$ sudo pacman -S libswscale-dev
error: target not found: libswscale-dev
[ferret@ferret-ms7b07 ~]$ sudo pacman -S libasound2-dev
error: target not found: libasound2-dev
[ferret@ferret-ms7b07 ~]$ sudo pacman -S libspeex-dev
error: target not found: libspeex-dev
[ferret@ferret-ms7b07 ~]$ sudo pacman -S libusbmuxd-dev
error: target not found: libusbmuxd-dev
[ferret@ferret-ms7b07 ~]$ sudo pacman -S libplist-dev
error: target not found: libplist-dev
[ferret@ferret-ms7b07 ~]$
None of them is found.
I’m lost. Please help. I have been going at this for hours