

Plus, you aren't going to misplace your GoPro as easily as you would with your external standalone webcam. It also seems thrifty to spend on standalone webcams because they are at times lousy or because it is easy to misplace them.īut if you own a GoPro, you can use it as your adventure camera when you are outside of your house and as a webcam when you are inside your house. All rights reserved.In-built webcams provide terrible video quality, and manufacturers have been stuck with 720P cameras in their laptops for over a decade now.

The GoPro webcam driver is now installed. Enter " cd Desktop" in the command prompt.Open a command prompt with administrator privileges.Download the webcam driver (zip, ~5MB) and extract the included dll, for instance on your Windows desktop.Install the Windows Desktop version of Camera Suite.Please take a look at this YouTube video (click here to open) which shows the following installation instructions in detail. This virtual webcam can then be used in applications which support DirectShow webcam input, such as Google Hangouts, Skype, VirtualDub, Sony Vegas, VLC Player. The experimental webcam driver for GoPro Hero cameras streams the live video stream from GoPro Hero 2, 3, 3+, and 4 cameras to a Windows PC (the driver is not available for MacOS). Webcam driver for GoPro Hero cameras (experimental!)
