[ale] IP camera to V4L virtual device

[Alex Carver]

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
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> 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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