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Hey folks,

I want to propose to have a virtual camera module for KDE systemsettings, may be even supplemented by an extra app.

Background:
I guess I am not alone at the moment having an increased use of online video conferencing apps/services (Zoom, Meet Jitsi, Big Blue Button, Skype ...) for job and private reasons. Those apps/services have total different capabilities for influencing the camera picture or doing screensharing (or not). Since I am often not in the position to pick the app/service used, I wish I could influence the camera picture by having a virtual camera device which e.g. would allow:
- zooming the camera picture in / out
- exchanging the background picture
- may apply filters
- transmitting a video instead of a camera picture
- sharing the desktop, a tab, an app, even if the service does not offer screensharing
I am aware that in general |this is the scope of Linux https://yasha.solutions/virtual-webcam-on-linux/, but the solution linked does not have the ease of KDE (e.g. the linked example stopped to work after a kernel update).

The KDE virtual camera should offer a set of preconfigured virtual cameras, allow configuring individual ones and easy switch between them.

What do you think?