The winAvatarCam Application

One of the necessary components to capture live video is the WinAvatarCam application.

About the winAvatarCam App.

• The WinAvatarCam application has been written by Kalle Jalkanen and Jonas Westling, at the Interactive Institute Umeå, Sweden.
• The WinAvatarCam application is a Microsoft Visual C++ application that runs on a Windows PC.
• A Web Camera is required to be connected and installed on the Windows PC.
• It can be downloaded from here.

How_to install and setup the winAvatarCam app

• Unzip the application.
• Go to the subdirectory called /Release/ of the extracted winAvatarCam application.
• Double-click on the executable file, called VidTest.
• In case your Web Camera is already connected and installed on the Windows machine, then you should be getting something like the following:
  
  
  Image01: A snapshot of the winAvatarCam application.
  
• In order to specify various Video Source properties, select Settings->Video Source. Within the tab Camera Controls, several controls can be adjusted (Image02) and within the Capture Source tab the Video Device can be selected from a list of devices (Image03).
  
  
  Image02: The Camera Controls
  
  
  Image03: The Device of Video Source
  
• As a next step the Video Format should be specified, by selecting Setting->Video Format. In the Stream Settings tab the Resolution and the Pixel Depth Compression can be specified. (Image04, Image05). Among the various resolutions the 320x240 is recommended and among the various pixel depth compressions the IYUV and the I420 are recommended.
  
  
  Image04: List of Available Resolutions.
  
  
  Image05: List of Available Pixel Depth(bits) and Compressions.
  
  
• Finally the IP address of the machine (LINUX), which runs the YG application has to be specified, whithin the Ip-address text box, along with the port number (7070) that receives the UDP data. After clicking on the Send button (as can be seen on Image01) and assuming there is no error in your Ygdrasil script you should be able to stream live video on your VR environment.