BitCam

What it does#

Turn your webcam on and players within 24 blocks see you in a bubble above your head. Walk away and they stop seeing you. BitCam only does video, so it sits next to Simple Voice Chat or Plasmo Voice for sound.

• Bubbles your way. Rectangle, square or circle in four styles: Classic, Matte, Glass and Neon. Size, position, opacity, zoom and how the bubble turns to viewers are yours to set, and others see it exactly like that.

• Auto framing. Optionally the camera follows your face and keeps you in the middle of the picture. It runs in the native library, not in Java.

• Your own video on the HUD, moved and resized in a HUD editor.

• Privacy first. Nothing is sent until you press Go Live in the first-run setup, and switching cameras never turns the stream on by itself.

• Control for viewers and servers. Hide any player's camera or all of them. The server decides who may turn a camera on: everyone, players with a permission, or nobody.

• Keys: I turns the camera on and off, Shift + I opens the settings.

Under the hood#

• H.264 at up to 30 FPS over a separate UDP port, about 0.8 Mbit/s per camera at standard quality. Encoding and decoding stay off the render thread.

• Quality presets from 320×180 to 854×480, a per-player upload limit and a configurable view radius.

• Fabric and NeoForge on the client; Fabric, NeoForge and Paper on the server in any combination. A BitCam client also works on servers without BitCam.

• One codebase for Minecraft 1.21.1 to 1.21.11 and 26.1, kept together with preprocessor macros.

• English and Russian.

Made with the NexBit team.