[ale] IP camera to V4L virtual device

[Boris Borisov]

I love to compile this module on my Debian test system but is co COLD in
the basement :)


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:

> Looks like what I want is a combination of v4l2loopback (as many
> instances as needed) and several instances of gstreamer (gst-launch)
> coupled with v4l2sink.
>
>
> On 1/22/2014 05:33, Boris Borisov wrote:
> > 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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