[ale] IP camera to V4L virtual device

[Boris Borisov]

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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