Open Opal

Howdy! This is a very simple fork of [Open Opal] that tweaks some setting for better performance (way lower latency) and defaults that are more to my taste. It uses (what I hope is) on-device downsampling of a 4K capture and outputs a 1080p stream. This should - I hope - result in a better image than what I think might just be quad binning of the 4K image in some other generic piece of meeting software.

Recommended steps to run

• Install Unity Capture (will install an additional virtual camera)
• Install OBS (will install an additional virtual camera)
• Start the OBS virtual camera
• Run Open Opal

Open Opal should automatically (thanks to pyvirtualcam) pick the Unity Capture camera to stream to, which OBS can then manipulate and pass on to some other program.

Installing dependencies

I recommend using pyenv with Python 3.8.10.

pyenv install 3.8.10 pyenv local 3.8.10

pip install -r requirements.txt

Building

python setup.py distribute

About

Fork of cansik's 2003 proof of concept. We are in no way associated with Opal Camera.