[ale] IP camera to V4L virtual device

[Alex Carver]

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.