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Hi, I think libjpeg-turbo, alsa-lib, ffmpeg, and gtk2 should be makedepends. I couldn't get it to work without them. I think gtk2 is not optional.

@miss_barfin thanks for the heads up. I'm looking into the "install-sound" script right now and it seems to me that it's rather hacky. E.g, if you change number of sound cards in your system, it will break anyway.

The reason the script does not work is because v4l2loopback-dc-dkms installs /etc/modprobe.d/v4l2loopback-dc.conf, instead of /etc/modprobe.d/droidcam.conf. I guess doing sudo ln -s /etc/modprobe.d/v4l2loopback-dc.conf /etc/modprobe.d/droidcam.conf should work around that.

problem, audio doesn't work you need to run "install-sound" script after installation in order to use audio but i can't really do it because it thinks the droidcam isn't installed because it can't find the file "/etc/modprobe.d/droidcam.conf"

There's been lot of changes to this package in the last couple weeks. There's also been changed to droidcam itself. Sorry for the delays and remember we all do this in our free time.

There's been an actual release by the droidcam dev, so hopefully that means things stabilize for now.

We now depend on v4l2loopback-dc-dkms, but now we are also depending on invidian to update that package in time. And it seems like the sha512sums are already outdated...

Can't we just depend on v4l2loopback-dkms instead? Edit: No we can't Droidcam refuses to use that one.

Manjaro is spam here, and the maintainer already said he can't install a different distribution just to support some users. Manjaro users: Please refrain from making further comments and use Manjaro support channels instead.

I have unpinned and removed the pinned comment suggesting people to install the make with sudo make install. This is silly. This is a packaging problem where the author does not account for a shared SRCDEST.

This is solved with "${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip::https://github.com/aramg/${pkgname}/archive/${_pkgver}.zip". Any other workarounds are wrong.

i flagged this out of date but i saw that you're already aware of the change thanks for packaging it

Upstream switched from putting versioned files on their website, to using a fixed name that has no version information. It only says "latest". So, everytime they update their version on the website, the checksum on the PKGBUILD will be outdated. This is not an issue with the package itself, but with the way upstream release. I plan on changing to a pure source package soon, once I get this building from source but, until then, if you get a checksum error, download from their website and change the PKGBUILD.

Managed to get this to install after side stepping verification (Big Trust issue!!)

I see the following:

:: Running post-transaction hooks...

(1/3) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...

(2/3) Install DKMS modules

==> dkms install droidcam/6.7.7 -k 5.6.14-arch1-1

(3/3) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...

❯ sudo insmod v4l2loopback-dc.ko width=320 height=240

insmod: ERROR: could not load module v4l2loopback-dc.ko: No such file or directory

❯ file /lib/modules/5.6.14-arch1-1/v4l2loopback-dc.ko

/lib/modules/5.6.14-arch1-1/v4l2loopback-dc.ko: cannot open `/lib/modules/5.6.14-arch1-1/v4l2loopback-dc.ko' (No such file or directory)

I see others having a similar issue, Why is this failing to build the module? What's missing from your package that's stopping this?

This is the only kernel I use so no need to ask "Is that the kernel you've booted?"

I decided to do a system wide find: sudo find / -name "v4l2loopback-dc.ko"

Still not found!!!!

What are you doing?