[ale] IP camera to V4L virtual device

[Boris Borisov]

... forgot to say ... no wife and kids on my head down in the basement ...


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>> Paul Cartwright
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