[ale] IP camera to V4L virtual device

[Boris Borisov]

I love hands on the hardware idea :) ... SSH is the first thing of course
...


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com>wrote:

> +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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