About MacOS support

[hipersayanX]

About giving support to future MacOS versions, I've some things to say...

I will be clear, I will try to give MacOS support as long as possible, but at this point I still working with Mac Catalina that is the latest working version for me and can't test newer versions because none of them works, forget about buying a Mac because it's out of budget.

I will start migrating native MacOS code to third-party libraries, so for example instead of having a specific plugin for CoreAudio, it will delegate the work to SDL or PortAudio.

Advantages

• I only need to test once in Linux.
• Any bug report in Mac will be delegated to those third-party libraries.
• I won't to constantly depend on a Mac developer to maintain the plugin, developers usually come and goes.
• Less work to do.

Disadvantages

• Third-party libraries usually lack a lot of features or does not works as expected, for example SDL which does not works in MacOS, or PortAudio which is missing HotPlug support yet.
• Blind development, if no other developers step-up, I will depend on users to tell me if a fix works or not.

This changes could give a bit more time to Webcamoid in Mac, but do not expect to last long. You know what to do, step-up or let it die.

[Hanzzsz]

Any webcamoid version for MAC High Sierra 10.13?

[hipersayanX]

@Hanzzsz Any of the old versions maybe, but those versions doesn't have any kind of support.

[hipersayanX]

I've made all changes. I've switched from giving Mac specific support to 3rd party libraries that offers more or less the same functionality.

CoreAudio -> PortAudio and SDL
AVFoundation -> FFmpeg (Screen capture)
AVFoundation -> QCamera (Camera capture)

This way it will make much easier for me to maintain the code. I'll keep maintaining the virtual camera since it just need Cmake and Clang to compile and shares code with the Windows virtual camera, so not big deal.

[hipersayanX]

Maintainers for MacOS are welcome

As news says and many users reported me, Apple has enforced code signing for apps working with it's ARM processors, so for me it make no sense to release pre-compiled binaries anymore, therefore since Webcamoid 9.1 and forward you will have to compile it from source code or install it from homebrew.
Also, the current Webcamoid package in homebrew is just a Cask that install the pre-compiled binaries, that formulae will need to be rewritten to compile straight from sources. The formulae is currently maintained by @miccal but I haven't any contact with him, and not sure if he want to keep maintaining it.
In resume, I need people to maintain Webcamoid's code and homebrew packages for Mac.