[ale] IP camera to V4L virtual device

Paul Cartwright pbcartwright at gmail.com
Wed Jan 22 14:58:42 EST 2014


+1, I was JUST gonna say that!!!
> Ssh?
>
> Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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>>>>>>
>>>>   


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