[ale] IP camera to V4L virtual device

[Boris Borisov]

another Linux module

https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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