[ale] IP camera to V4L virtual device

[Boris Borisov]

I just find something http://classic.makesweet.com/webcam/ucanvcam/


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was thinking in the past of almost same application. I wanted to be able
> to speak over skype in the same time to play video file from virtual device
> instead of camera video. But did not find anything but for M$ platform.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:
>
>> On 1/21/2014 04:34, Phil Turmel wrote:
>> > Hi Alex,
>> >
>> > On 01/21/2014 02:39 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
>> >> I searched for this once upon a time but now I can't find anything (may
>> >> just be tired and can't conjure up the proper search incantations).
>>  I'm
>> >> looking for a daemon that can pull in an MJPEG stream from an IP camera
>> >> (or other net source) and create a virtual /dev/videoX device for it
>> >> that can then be used by other software.  I wanted to be able to do
>> some
>> >> video conferencing and just switch from one camera to another by
>> >> changing the camera feed source in the conference software.  The
>> cameras
>> >> themselves would be regular IP cameras scattered about.
>> >
>> > The "vivi" kernel module should be able to do this for you, with the
>> > help of a userspace program to push the camera video into it.
>> >
>> > (I've never used it myself, though.)
>> >
>>
>> Interesting, didn't know about that module.  A quick search doesn't show
>> any applications yet, everything seems to be just a code demo for the
>> module.  I'll have to dig some more.
>>
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